Arab-Byzantine relations in early Islamic times /
Surrounded on all sides by hostile nations and peoples, Islam began life as a religion in a wary manner. This collection begins and ends with war and considers the uneasy relationship between the Arabs and the Byzantine civilization from which they learned a great deal during uneasy periods of peace
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Aldershot :
Ashgate/Variorum,
[2004], ©2004
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| Series: | Formation of the classical Islamic world ;
v. 8 The formation of the classical Islamic world ; v. 8 Formation of the classical Islamic world ; v. 8 Formation of the classical Islamic world v. 8 |
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Table of Contents:
- War and diplomacy
- The Persians in Asia Minor and the end of antiquity / Clive Foss
- Arab wars with the Byzantines in the umayyad period / Julius Welhausen
- Arab-Byzantine relations under the umayyad caliphate / H.A.R. Gibb
- Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy
- Frontiers and military organization
- Seventh-century continuities: the Ajnād and the "thematic myth" / John Haldon
- The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries: Military organisation and society in the borderlands / J.F. Haldon and H. Kennedy
- Polemics and images of the "other"
- Apocalyptic and other materials on Early Muslim-Byzantine wars: a review of Arabic sources / Suliman Bashear
- Byzantine views of Islam / John Meyendorff
- Byzantium and the Arabs: the image of the Byzantines as mirrored in Arabic literature / Ahmad M.H. Shboul
- Exchange, influence and confluence
- Islamic art and Byzantium / Oleg Grabar
- Parallelism, convergence and influence in the relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature and piety / Gustave E. von Grunebaum
- Theophanes and the Arabic historical tradition: some indications of intercultural transmission / Lawrence I. Conrad
- Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine Iconoclasm / Patricia Crone
- Martyrdom, Jihād, Holy war
- Some observations concerning the early development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine frontier / Michael Bonner
- The 60 martyrs of Gaza and the martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem / David Woods
- War and diplomacy
- The Persians in Asia Minor and the end of antiquity / Clive Foss
- Arab wars with the Byzantines in the umayyad period / Julius Welhausen
- Arab-Byzantine relations under the umayyad caliphate / H.A.R. Gibb
- Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy
- Frontiers and military organization
- Seventh-century continuities: the Ajnād and the "thematic myth" / John Haldon
- The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries: Military organisation and society in the borderlands / J.F. Haldon and H. Kennedy
- Polemics and images of the "other"
- Apocalyptic and other materials on Early Muslim-Byzantine wars: a review of Arabic sources / Suliman Bashear
- Byzantine views of Islam / John Meyendorff
- Byzantium and the Arabs: the image of the Byzantines as mirrored in Arabic literature / Ahmad M.H. Shboul
- Exchange, influence and confluence
- Islamic art and Byzantium / Oleg Grabar
- Parallelism, convergence and influence in the relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature and piety / Gustave E. von Grunebaum
- Theophanes and the Arabic historical tradition: some indications of intercultural transmission / Lawrence I. Conrad
- Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine Iconoclasm / Patricia Crone
- Martyrdom, Jihād, Holy war
- Some observations concerning the early development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine frontier / Michael Bonner
- The 60 martyrs of Gaza and the martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem / David Woods
- 1 The Persians in Asia minor and the end of antiquity / Clive Foss
- 2. Arab wars with the Byzantines in the Umayyad period / Julius Wellhausen
- 3. Arab-Byzantine relations under the Umayyad caliphate / H. A. R. Gibb
- 4. Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy
- 5. Seventh-century continuities : the Ajnad and the "thematic myth" / John Haldon
- 6. The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries : military organisation and society in the borderlands / J. F. Haldon and H. Kennedy
- 7. Apocalyptic and other materials on early Muslim-Byzantine wars : a review of Arabic sources / Suliman Bashear
- 8. Byzantine views of Islam / John Meyendorff
- 9. Byzantium and the Arabs : the image of the Byzantines as mirrored in Arabic literature / Ahmad M. H. Shboul
- 10. Islamic art and Byzantium / Oleg Grabar
- 11. Parallelism, convergence and influence in the relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature and piety / Gustave E. von Grunebaum
- 12. Theophanes and the Arabic historical tradition : some indications of intercultural transmission / Lawrence J. Conrad
- 13. Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Byzantine iconoclasm / Patricia Crone
- 14. Some observations concerning the early development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine frontier / Michael Bonner
- 15. The 60 martyrs of Gaza and the martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem / David Woods.