Byzantium Viewed By the Arabs

Informationen zum Autor Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History at the American University of Beirut. Klappentext This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment. Zusammenfassung This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium! tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare! contact! and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium! this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment.

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• Authors: Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, El Cheikh Nadia Maria, Nadia Maria El-Cheikh
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2004
• EAN: 9780932885302
• ISBN: 978-0-932885-30-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs; Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs; Harvard Middle Eastern Monogra; Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Byzantine Empire