Ελ Σεΐχ, Άραβες και Βυζάντιο (2013)
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Abbreviation
Ελ Σεΐχ, Άραβες και Βυζάντιο (2013)
Form of publication
Book

Νάντια Μαρία Ελ Σεΐχ, Το Βυζάντιο όπως το είδαν οι Άραβες, Νίκος Κελέρμενος (επιμ.), Νίκος Κελέρμενος (μτφρ.) σειρά Αντιπαραθέσεις 25, (Εναλλακτικές Εκδόσεις, Αθήνα 2013)

ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 978-960-427-141-2
First edition
Title of first edition
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
Publisher of first edition
Harvard University Press, series Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XXXVI
Place of publication of first edition
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of publication of first edition
2004
Source
Yes
Data

Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs [the translation in Greek] (Athens 2013). The book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of contact, exchanges and warfare. 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, the 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.

>>>> See: El Cheikh, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (2004)

Key words
Abbasids, dynasty.
Apollonius of Tyana.
Arab sources / Arabic sources.
Arab-Byzantine conflicts.
Arabs.
Baghdad.
Byzantine emperors.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine monuments.
Byzantine nobility / noblemen.
Byzantine sources.
Caliphate.
Christians of the East.
Constantinople / Polis / Istanbul.
Constantinople, Hippodrome.
Crusades.
Damascus.
Egypt.
Franks.
Galata.
Harun al-Rashid, caliph.
Heraclius, emperor.
Hippodrome.
Holy Wisdom of God / Hagia Sophia.
Ibn al-Athir, geographer.
Ibn Battuta, traveler.
Ideology.
Idrisi / al-Idrῑsῑ.
Institutions.
Irene the Athenian, empress.
Islam.
Islamic art.
Islamic civilization.
Late Antiquity.
Late Byzantine period.
Mamluks.
Marriage.
Medieval era.
Middle Byzantine period.
Middle East.
Mosque.
Muslims.
Nicephorus II Phocas / Nikephoros II Phokas.
Persian civilization.
Philosophy.
Poetry.
Prophet Muhammad.
Qur'an / Koran.
Sasanids / Sassanian Persians.
Sciences.
Syria.
Tabari, chronicler / al-Tabari.
Travelers.
Umayyad, dynasty.
War.
Women.