Byzantium and Islam : : collected studies on Byzantine-Muslim encounters / / by Daniel J. Sahas.

• VerfasserIn: Sahas, Daniel J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (549 pages)

Arabs and the Middle East were among the first to embrace Christianity, leaving their print on its culture. Thus Byzantium, by geography and culture, encountered Islam at its birth. No wonder that many saw and treated Islam as a contemporary Christian "heresy" - whatever the word may connote. Radical events fill the history of Byzantium (330-1453) encountering the world of Islam: conquests, wars, cultural and diplomatic relations, manifestations of mutual admiration - and exclusion! Their story makes for a fascinating branch of either Byzantine or Islamic studies; the literature about each other forming a distinguished section in either field. This collection of studies is a sample of Byzantine perspectives of Islam offering, hopefully, expressions and solutions rather than creating impressions or illusions.

Table of Contents

Part I. Mental and theological predispositions for a relationship, or conflict -- Part II. Historical preambles under the sting of the Arab conquests -- Part III. Damascenica -- Part IV. On or off the path of the Damascene -- Index.