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- catalog abstract "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 and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.".
- catalog contributor b13251586.
- catalog coverage "Arab countries Relations Byzantine Empire.".
- catalog coverage "Byzantine Empire Foreign public opinion, Arab History.".
- catalog coverage "Byzantine Empire Relations Arab countries.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.".
- catalog description "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 and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.".
- catalog extent "xi, 271 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Byzantium viewed by the Arabs.".
- catalog identifier "0932885306".
- catalog isFormatOf "Byzantium viewed by the Arabs.".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 36".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Byzantium viewed by the Arabs.".
- catalog spatial "Arab countries Relations Byzantine Empire.".
- catalog spatial "Arab countries".
- catalog spatial "Byzantine Empire Foreign public opinion, Arab History.".
- catalog spatial "Byzantine Empire Relations Arab countries.".
- catalog subject "DF553 .E52 2004".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Arab countries History To 1500.".
- catalog title "Byzantium viewed by the Arabs / Nadia Maria El Cheikh.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".