Islamic-Byzantine Border in History
From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2023
257 pages
978-1-3995-1304-3 (ISBN)
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Explores the significance of the Islamic-Byzantine border from the rise of Islam to the end of the Crusades
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Deborah Tor | Alexander Beihammer
The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History
From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades
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02/2023
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Historical Significance of the Islamic-Byzantine Border: From the Seventh Century to 1291
- 2 The Byzantine-Muslim Frontier from the Arab Conquests to the Arrival of the Seljuk Turks
- 3 The Formation of al-?Awa?im
- 4 Caucasian Elites between Byzantium and the Caliphate in the Early Islamic Period
- 5 Byzantine Borders were State Artefacts, not 'Fluid Zones of Interaction'
- 6 A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: The Jarajima (Mardaites) between Byzantium and the Caliphate
- 7 The Character of Umayyad Art: the Mediterranean Tradition
- 8 Byzantine Heroes and Saints of the Arab-Byzantine Border (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)
- 9 A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: The Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990-1085, and the Performance of Power
- 10 Byzantine Population Policy in the Eastern Borderland between Byzantium and the Caliphate from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries
- 11 The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier in Seljuq Anatolia
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
