East and West : : Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Theodoros Papadopoullos, Vassilios Christides.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bosworth, C. Edmund,; Christides, Vassilios,; Desanges, Jehan,; Dimitroukas, J.,; Giakoumis, Konstantinos,; Guerasimov, Igor V.,; Hanafi, Alia,; Karapli, Katerina,; Kordoses, Stephanos,; Koutrakou, Nike,; Leontsini, Maria,; Letsios, Dimitris,; Lev, Yaacov Y.,; Livadas, George K.,; Marcos Aldón, Manuel,; Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro,; Muhammad, Tarek M.,; Shumovsky, Theodore,; Trakadas, Athena,; Tsakos, Alexandros,; Tsoutsos, George,; Urbán, Ángel,; Yannopoulos, Panayotis A.,; Ying, Lin,
• HerausgeberIn: Christides, Vassilios,; Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro,; Papadopoullos, Theodoros,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Twenty-four contributions on matters dealing with Byzantine and Oriental lands, people, and cultures through different perspectives, including history, maritime trade, documents, travelers, and art. These essays trace the history of the relations between the Greeks and the peoples of the Middle East from Late Antiquity up to the seventeenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preliminary note -- Across the history -- L’Afrique dans les Ethnika de Stéphane de Byzance -- Arabs, Turks and Chinese in Central Asia during the first third of the 8th century, under the light of the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions: War and Diplomacy -- The Arabs through Byzantine eyes (11th-12th centuries): A change in perception? -- Regional Government and Social Strife in the Exarchate of Africa between the Persian Invasion and the Arab Conquest -- Had the Arabs Military Skills or Tactics during their Early Conquests of Bilād al-Shām? -- East and West: From the Ottoman Empire to Turkey -- Byzantins et Arabes dans l’espace grec aux IXe et Xe siècles selon les sources hagiographiques locales et contemporaines -- Sea and trade -- Mamluk ships and seamanship: a reappraisal -- The Fatimid State and Egypt’s Mediterranean Trade 10th–12th Centuries -- The reconstruction of the average Arab-Byzantine warship dromon-shīnī -- Sulaymān al-Mahrī and his major work on navigation al-‘Umda al-mahriyya fi ḍ abṭ al-‘ulūm al-baḥriyya (“Mahrian base in precise rendering of navigational sciences”) -- Early Islamic ports of Morocco: situational and socio-economical considerations -- Texts and documents -- On Greeks and Greek culture in Sudan according to Ibn Ḍayfallāh’s Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt fī khuṣūṣ al-awliyāʾ wa-l-Ṣāliḥīn wa-l- ʽUlamāʾ wa-l-shuʽarāʾ fī l-Sūdān -- An Arabic will written on a ship: P. ACPSI. No. 15 (P. Rag.) -- Diabolus in figura Aethiopis tetri Ethiopians as demons in hagiographic sources: Literary stereotypes versus social reality and historic events -- Egyptian major issues in Eutychius of Alexandria’s Kitāb naẓm al-ǧawāhir -- Medieval inscriptions from the renovated Museum at Jebel Barkal (Sudan) -- The index of kephálaia in the Gospel of Luke in a Greek- Arabic MS from the 11th century (BnF, Suppl. gr. 911) -- Lands, commerce and travellers -- Sir Thomas Glover, English Ambassador and Consul in Istanbul, 1606-11 -- Andreas Libadēnos’ travel to Egypt and Palestine and its description (1325 or 1326) -- Hellenic Elements in a Third Century Chinese Source on Roman Empire -- Art in its context -- The Perception of the Crusader in Late Byzantine and Early Post-Byzantine Ecclesiastical Painting in Epiros -- The First Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (674 – 678): Problems – Iconograpy -- The Majestatic Representations in the Syriac Vat. Cod. 559