Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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-ʿAwāṣim
- 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 Jarājima (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 Marwānids of Diyār 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
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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-ʿAwāṣim
- 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 Jarājima (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 Marwānids of Diyār 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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Islamic-Byzantine Border in HistoryFrom the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023