Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times

Michael Bonner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780860787167
• eBook ISBN: 9781351957588
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

GENERAL INDEX

Note: Page references in italics indicate illustrations. The prefix al-is ignored in alphabetical sequence.

al-‘Abbās ibn al-Ma’mūn 177

‘Abbās ibn al-Walīd 54–6, 61, 212

‘Abbāsid caliphate: and apocalyptic literature xxxii

and Baghdad xix 78

and Byzantine Empire 32, 68, 141, 168

decline xix–xx

and diplomacy xix 82, 84–9

and fronder lands xvii 86, 168–78, 215, 401–27

and iconography of power 274

and Syria 103

and trade 87, 91, 169–71

and Umayyads 425

‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abbās 40, 197, 204, 206

‘Abd Allāh ibn Abl Maryam 62

‘Abd Allāh ibn ’Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb 40, 196, 204, 205–6, 418

‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uqba ibn Nāfi‘ 62

‘Abd Allāh/‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Amr (Companion) 183, 184–5, 190, 192–3, 195, 197–8, 423

‘Abd Allāh/‘Abdullāh ibn al-Zubayr 40, 44, 47–9, 53, 205, 208–10

‘Abd al-AzIz ibn Marwān 52

‘Abd al-AzIz ibn Mūsā ibn Nusayr 56

‘Abd al-Ḥamld ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān 183

‘Abd al-Jabbār 377, 380, 384, 387–92, 395 n. 199, 396–7

‘Abd al-Malik al-Hāshiml 413 n. 49

‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwān (caliph) xxxi, 425

and Arab-Byzantine wars 46–8, 50, 52–3, 61, 208–11

and Christians 218

coinage 68, 76, 77, 275, 363 n. 8, 369 n. 36

and Dome of the Rock 69

and iconography 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• General Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• War and Diplomacy
• Frontiers and Military Organization
• Exchange, Influence and Confluence
• Martyrdom, Jihäd, Holy War
• General Index