Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. War and Diplomacy: The Persians in Asia Minor and the end of antiquity, Clive Foss; Arab wars with the Byzantines in the Umayyad period, Julius Wellhausen; Arab-Byzantine relations under the Umayyad Caliphate, H.A.R.Gibb; Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid-11th century, Hugh Kennedy. Frontiers and Military Organization: 7th-century continuities: the Ajnâd and the 'Thematic Myth', John Haldon; The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the 8th and 9th centuries: military organisation and society in the borderlands, J.F. Haldon and H. Kennedy. Polemics and Images of the 'Other': Apocalyptic and other materials on Early Muslim-Byzantine wars: a review of Arabic sources, Suliman Bashear; Byzantine views of Islam, John Meyendorff; Byzantium and the Arabs: the image of the Byzantines as mirrored in Arabic literature, Ahmad M.H. Shboul. Exchange, Influence and Confluence: Islamic art and Byzantium, Oleg Grabar; Parallelism, convergence and influence in the relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature and piety, Gustav E. von Grunebaum; Theophanes and the Arabic historical tradition: some indications of intercultural transmission, Lawrence I. Conrad; Islam, Judaeo-Christianity and Byzantine iconoclasm, Patricia Crone. Martyrdom, Jihad, Holy War: Some observations concerning the early development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, Michael Bonner; The 60 Martyrs of Gaza and the martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem, David Woods. General index.

About the Author

Michael Bonner is Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Associate Professor of Medieval Islamic History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Clive Foss, Julius Wellhausen, H.A.R.Gibb, Hugh Kennedy, John Haldon, Suliman Bashear, John Meyendorff, Ahmad M.H. Shboul, Oleg Grabar, Gustav E. von Grunebaum, Lawrence I. Conrad, Patricia Crone, Michael Bonner, David Woods.