RT Book
T1 The Islamic-Byzantine frontier: interaction and exchange among Muslim and Christian communities
A1 Eger, Asa A.
A2 Eger, A. Asa
LA English
PP London
PB I. B. Tauris
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/826941699
AB The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested border: the annual raids between the two, the line of fortified fortresses defending Islamic lands, the no-man's land in between and the birth of jihad. In their early representations of a Muslim-Christian encounter, accounts of the Islamic-Byzanti
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN DS38.6 .E34 2014
SN 9781780761572
K1 Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- Islamic Empire
K1 Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- History -- To 1500
K1 Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
K1 Islamic Empire -- Foreign relations -- Byzantine Empire
K1 Religion and international relations -- History -- To 1500
K1 Electronic books