Format:
lv, 465 pages
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781315262284
,
1315262282
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9781351957595
,
1351957597
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9781351957571
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1351957570
Series Statement:
The formation of the classical Islamic world 8
Content:
"The Byzantine Empire was the Islamic commonwealth's first and most stubborn adversary. For many centuries it loomed large in Islamic diplomacy, military operations and commerce, as well as in Islamic representations of the world in general. Moreover, the ways in which early Muslims and Byzantines perceived one another? both polemically and otherwise? afterwards proved decisive for the mutual perceptions between the Islamic world and Christian Western Europe. For these and other reasons, Arab-Byzantine relations have been a major concern of modern scholarship on early Islam for well over a century. Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times presents some of the most important of these contributions, organized according to the following themes: war and diplomacy; frontiers and military organization; polemics and images of the 'other'; exchange, influence and convergence; and martyrdom, jihad and holy war. An introductory essay discusses these themes within the contexts of early Islamic society, politics and economy."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Part War and Diplomacy -- chapter 1 The Persians in Asia Minor and the End of Antiquity -- chapter 2 Arab Wars with the Byzantines in the Umayyad Period -- chapter 3 Arab-Byzantine Relations under the Umayyad Caliphate -- chapter 4 Byzantine-Arab Diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic Conquests to the Mid Eleventh Century -- part Frontiers and Military Organization -- chapter 5 Seventh-Century Continuities: the Ajnad and the?Thematic Myth? -- chapter 6 The Arab-Byzantine Frontier in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: Military Organisation and Society in the Borderlands -- part Polemics and Images of the?Other? -- chapter 7 Apocalyptic and Other Materials on Early Muslim-Byzantine Wars: A Review of Arabic Sources -- chapter 8 Byzantine Views of Islam -- chapter 9 Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature -- part Exchange, Influence and Confluence -- chapter 10 Islamic Art and Byzantium -- chapter 11 Parallelism, Convergence and Influence in the Relations of Arab and Byzantine Philosophy, Literature and Piety -- chapter 12 Theophanes and the Arabic Historical Tradition: Some Indications of Intercultural Transmission -- chapter 13 Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine Iconoclasm -- part Martyrdom, Jihad, Holy War -- chapter 14 Some Observations Concerning the Early Development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine Frontier -- chapter 15 The 60 Martyrs of Gaza and the Martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780860787167
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.4324/9781315262284
URL:
http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781315262284
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