There Was Arab Settlement in Palestine

CDL Press has published a new book entitled SHAPING THE MIDDLE EAST - JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS IN AN AGE OF TRANSITION 400-­800 C.E.edited by Kenneth G. Holum and Hayim Lapin

Among the subjects covered by the essays:
Caesarea Palaestinae: A Paradigmatic Transition? by Kenneth G. Holum, the University of Maryland

QaysŽriyah as an Early Islamic Settlement by Donald Whitcomb, the University of Chicago
Archaeological Evidence for the Sasanian Persian Invasion of Jerusalem by Jodi Magness, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Province of Arabia during the Persian Invasion (613-629/630) by Michele Piccirillo, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem
Islamic Period: The Cases of Jerusalem and Ramla by Gideon Avni, the Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem

Changes in the Settlement Pattern of Palestine Following the Arab Conquest by Milka Levy-Rubin, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Aspects of the Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 500­- 800 C.E. by Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland
Arab Christians and the Program to Claim the Land for Islam by Sidney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America

The Muslim Appropriation of a Biblical Text: The Messianic Dimensions of Isaiah 21:6­7 by
John C. Reeves, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
 
Interesting.
 
And talking about "Arab Settlement", try this list.


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