Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times
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Ahmad M.H. Shboul
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Arab Byzantine Frontier
Arab Byzantine Relations
Arabic Literary Tradition
Byzantine Art
Byzantine frontier studies
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Clive Foss
David Woods
Early Islamic Times
early jihad development on borders
Early Recension
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Gustave E. Von Grunebaum
H. Kennedy
H.A.R. Gibb
Hugh Kennedy
Ibn Al Zubayr
iconoclasm debates
intercultural exchange
Intercultural Transmission
Islamic historiography
J.F. Haldon
Jewish Christianity
John Haldon
John Meyertdorff
Julius Wellhausen
Khirbat Al Mafjar
Latin Recension
Lawrence I. Conrad
Leo III
military organisation analysis
Mosaic Cubes
Muslim World
Oleg Grabar
Palestine II
Patricia Crone
Phoenice Libanensis
Qasr Al Hayr
Regnal Years
religious polemics
Sayf Al Dawla
Sibt Ibn Al Jawzi
Suliman Bashear
Syriac Sources
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780860787167
- Weight: 1130g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Michael Bonner is Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Associate Professor of Medieval Islamic History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
