Byzantine Emporia has summarised Kaegi. I recommend reading the comments. Byzantine Emporia I rate good at explaining the followup to the late 630s / 940s campaigns. However "Yarmuk" itself smells bad to me.
Kaegi took Arab sources at face value - as you can tell inasmuch his account assumed the armies were Muslim already. I don't think anyone seriously does this anymore.
Also the battlefield is a warfield, extending over most of what's now northern Jordan (and Golan). You know how we've found the Teutoberg Wald? The commenters note no such site can be found around Yarmuk.
Further those Syriac (and Armenian) sources I was hunting last winter don't play it up. Constantine III's abortive campaign is more important.
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