Byzantium viewed by the Arabs / Nadia Maria El Cheikh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 36.

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion.

History.

Byzantine Empire--Foreign public opinion, Arab--History.

Byzantine Empire.

Public opinion--Arab countries--History--To 1500.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 271 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Arabic-Islamic Sources

A History of Alterity

The Temporal Evolution of Perception

1 The Encounter with Byzantium 21

Byzantium in the Qur'an: Surat al-Rum

Early Contacts: Byzantine Military Leaders

An Exemplary Ruler: Emperor Heraclius

Byzantine Craftsmanship: A Window to Greatness

Constantinople: Sieges and Eschatology

2 Confronting Byzantium 83

Byzantine Imperial Authority: Rank, Titulature, and Power

The Byzantine Emperors and Harun al-Rashid

Byzantine Knowledge: Science and Philosophy

Shu'ubiyya and the "Discovery" of Pre-Islamic Byzantium

Homo Byzantinus: Criticism of Character and Practice

Byzantine Women: A Source of Fitna

3 Islam on the Defensive 139

Constantinople: The City of Marvels

Ceremonial, or the Grandeur of Byzantium

Byzantine Revival: Islam on the Defensive

The Rise and Fall of Nicephorus Phocas

End of an Era: The Battle of Manzikert and the Fall of Jerusalem

4 A New Reality: Revisiting Byzantium 189

Homo Byzantinus: The New Christian Presence

Constantinople

The Fall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

0932885306

9780932885302

OCLC:

55232351