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Explores the significance of the Islamic-Byzantine border from the rise of Islam to the end of the Crusades
Presents the first work dedicated entirely to the Islamic-Byzantine Border
Provides a comparative perspective, featuring both leading Byzantinists and leading researchers of the Islamic world
Uniquely offers a broad chronological perspective, showing the longue dur e rather than focusing on a specific period
One of the most formative areas and periods of historical inquiry, across the fields of Mediterranean history, Byzantine history, Islamic history and the history of Muslim-Christian relations, is the long warfare between the Islamic and Christian worlds in the period that began with the Islamic conquests of the formerly Byzantine lands of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 630s CE and ended with the closing of the Crusades in the Levant c.1300 CE.
This cross-disciplinary book offers a broad spectrum of essays on important aspects of the political, social, religious and historical importance of the Islamic-Byzantine border between 630-c.1300CE, and in particular on the manifold ways in which the Islamic-Byzantine border affected the internal development and culture of each of the two civilisations. The chapters are written by twelve of the leading scholars in the field, including experts on both the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, and explore developments ranging from anti-government riots and dynastic revolutions to the border's influence on religious law, apocalyptic literature, population policy and heroic culture.
Contents
List of Illustrations | Notes on Contributors | Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Historical Significance of the Islamic-Byzantine Border: From the Seventh Century to 1291 - D.G. Tor
2 The Byzantine-Muslim Frontier from the Arab Conquests to the Arrival of the Seljuk Turks - Alexander D. Beihammer
3 The Formation of al-ʿAwāṣim - Hugh Kennedy
4 Caucasian Elites between Byzantium and the Caliphate in the Early Islamic Period - Robert Hoyland
5 Byzantine borders were state artifacts, not "fluid zones of interaction" Anthony Kaldellis
6 A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: The Jarājima (Mardaites) between Byzantium and the Caliphate - Christian Sahner
7 The Character of Umayyad Art: the Mediterranean Tradition - Robert Hillenbrand
8 Byzantine Heroes and Saints of the Arab-Byzantine Border (9th-10th c.) - Sophie Métivier
9 A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: The Marwānids of Diyār Bakr, 990-1085 and the Performance of Power - Carole Hillenbrand
10 Byzantine Population Policy in the Eastern Borderland between Byzantium and the Caliphate from the 7th through the 12th Centuries - Ralph-Johannes Lilie
11 The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier in Seljuq Anatolia - Andrew C.S. Peacock
Selected Bibliography | Index
