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• Preface-- From polis to madina: urban change in late Antique and early Islamic Syria-- The last century of Byzantine Syria: a reinterpretation-- Gerasa and Scythopolis: power and patronage in the Byzantine cities of Bilad al-Sham-- The impact of Muslim rule on the pattern of rural settlement in Syria-- From Antiquity to Islam in the cities of al-Andalus and al-Mashriq-- The Melkite church from the Islamic conquest to the Crusades: continuity and adaptation in the Byzantine legacy-- Antioch: from Byzantium to Islam and back again-- The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries: military organisation and society in the borderlands-- Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid eleventh century-- Central government and provincial elites in the early 'Abbasid caliphate-- Military pay and the economy of the early Islamic state-- Caliphs and their chroniclers in the Middle Abbasid period (third/ninth century)-- The Uqaylids of Mosul: the origins and structure of a nomad dynasty-- The decline and fall of the first Muslim empire-- Index.
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The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the 11th centuries; and the development of government and the economy in the early caliphate. Throughout there is an emphasis on social and economic trends and the integration of written and archaeological evidence to elucidate the complex developments in this pivotal part of the world. In different ways all the papers discuss the formation of the Islamic world and the way in which the legacy of Antiquity, economic, social and cultural, affected the emergence of what we think of as this "Islamic World". These papers will be of interest to historians of Islam and Byzantium but also western mediaevalists interested in comparing processes of change at opposite ends of the Mediterranean.
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• Preface and acknowledgments
• From Nikolaos to Laonikos
• The marriage of Herodotos and Thucydides
• Geography and ethnography
• Religion, Islam, and the Turks
• Between Greeks and Romans
• Plethon, Laonikos, and the birth of neohellenism
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Laonikos of Athens was not Laonikos of Chania
• Appendix 2. Laonikos and fourteenth-century Athenian history
• Appendix 3. Herodotean expressions in the histories
• Appendix 4. The known history of Laur. 70.6 between 1318 and 1480.

• Prologue
• 1. A Broken Colossus
• 2. Taming Leviathan
• 3. Shadows at Dusk
• 4. Eyes in the Dark
• 5. New Horizons
• 6. Cultural Capitals Epilogue.
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The emergence of Islam in the seventh century AD still polarises scholars who seek to separate religious truth from the historical reality with which it is associated. However, history and prophecy are not solely defined by positive evidence or apocalyptic truth, but by human subjects, who consider them to convey distinct messages and in turn make these messages meaningful to others. These messages are mutually interdependent, and analysed together provide new insights into history. It is by way of this concept that Olof Heilo presents the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire as a key to understanding the rise of Islam; two historical processes often perceived as distinct from one another. Eastern Rome and the Rise of Islam highlights significant convergences between Early Islam and the Late Ancient world. It suggests that Islam's rise is a feature of a common process during which tensions between imperial ambitions and apocalyptic beliefs in Europe and the Middle East cut straight across today's theological and political definitions. The conquests of Islam, the emergence of the caliphate, and the transformation of the Roman and Christian world are approached from both prophetic anticipations in the Ancient and Late Ancient world, and from the Medieval and Modern receptions of history. In the shadow of their narratives it becomes possible to trace the outline of a shared history of Christianity and Islam. The "Dark Ages" thus emerge not merely as a tale of sound and fury, but as an era of openness, diversity and unexpected possibilities. Approaching the rise of Islam as a historical phenomenon, this book opens new perspectives in the study of early religion and philosophy, as well as providing a valuable resource for students and scholars of Islamic Studies.
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"It all happened in 1876, during 'the Year of the Three Sultans' when a Bulgarian girl named Stephana made a journey to Salonika to convert to Islam and was subsequently abducted by a group of Christians. This event stoked tensions, and stirred outrage within the Muslim community. Public protests ensued, culminating in the murder of the French and German consuls by a Muslim mob on May 6, 1876. This 'Salonika Incident' would consequently trigger a wave of hysteria throughout the West and among the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire. There was fear of an 'impending massacre of the Christians' which would never take place. A diplomatic war of words between the Sublime Porte and the Great Powers, which held the former accountable for this double crime, directly followed the incident. Through a detailed and meticulous account of this neglected episode of Ottoman-Balkan history, this book aims to cast light on an often distorted and highly misunderstood event which is a manifestation of Western attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire during the climactic years of the Eastern Question."--P. [4] of cover.

• Contents: Introduction-- Bibliography-- The explosion of Late Antiquity, Andrea Giardina-- The other transition: from the ancient world to feudalism, Chris Wickham-- The Nika riot: a reappraisal, Geoffrey Greatrex-- The Justinianic plague revisited, D.C. Stathakopoulos-- Then origins of the manorial economy: new insights from late antiquity, Peter Sarris-- Ruling the late Roman and early Byzantine city: a continuous history, Mark Whittow-- Syria in Transition, AD 550-750: archaeological approach, Clive Foss-- Heraclius's Persian campaigns and the revival of the east Roman empire, J.D. Howard-Johnston-- John Moschus and his friend Sophronius the sophist, Henry Chadwick-- Holy images and likeness, Gilbert Dagron-- Index.
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This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Qur'anic scholars are also increasingly seeking to place the life of Muhammad and the Qur'an in a late antique background. Averil Cameron, herself one of the leading scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium, has chosen eleven key articles that together give a rounded picture of the most important trends in late antique scholarship over the last decades, and provide a coherent context for the emergence of the new religion. A substantial introduction, with a detailed bibliography, surveys the present state of the field, as well as discussing some recent themes in Qur'anic and early Islamic scholarship from the point of view of a late antique historian. The volume also provides an invaluable introduction to recent scholarship, making clear the ferment of religious change that was taking place across the Near East before, during and after the lifetime of Muhammad. It will be essential reading for Islamicists and late antique students and scholars alike.
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• The Agricultural Landscape of the Umayyad North and the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier / Asa Eger
• How to Share a Sacred Place – The Parallel Christian and Muslim Use of the Major Christian Holy Sites at Jerusalem and Bethlehem / Ute Versteegen
• The Christian Presence in Jordan in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries / Robert Schick
• Arabic-speaking Ambassadors in the Byzantine Empire (from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries) / Nicolas Drocourt
• The Employment of Christian Mediators by Muslim Rulers in Arab-Byzantine Diplomatic Relations in the Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries / Bettina Krönung
• Changing Strategies and Ideological Concepts in Byzantine-Arab Relations in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / Alexander Beihammer
• Painters, Patrons, and Patriarchs. Byzantine Artists in the Latin and Islamic Middle East of the Thirteenth Century / Mat Immerzeel
• The Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII (1261-1282) and Greek Orthodox /Melkite-Genoese Cultural Agency in a Globalised World: Art at Sinai, Behdaidat, of the pallio of San Lorenzo in Genoa, and in Mamluk Egypt / Lucy-Anne Hunt
• Dressing the Part: Jewelry as Fashion in the Medieval Middle East / Elizabeth Williams
• Pseudo-Arabic as a Christian Sign: Monks, Manuscripts, and the Iconographic Program of Hosios Loukas / Alicia Walker
• The Lure of the Exotic: The Byzantine Heritage in Islamic Book Painting / Robert Hillenbrand
• Niketas Byzantios, Islam, and the Aristotelian Shift in Ninth-Century Byzantium / Benjamin de Lee
• Greek into Arabic in Byzantine Antioch: ʻAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl’s "Book of the Garden"(Kitāb al-rawḍa) / Alexander Treiger
• Islam and Orthodox Theology in Arabic: The "Melkite" Tradition from the Ninth to the Thirteenth centuries / Sidney Griffth.

"The contributors in the edited volume "Ambassadors, Artists, Theologians: Byzantine Relations with the Near East from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries" examine the complex dynamics which arose between the Byzantine Empire and the Near East. Moving beyond the tradition of histoire événementielle, the contributions collected here highlight the passing of artistic practices, ideas and interlocutors between Byzantium and the Islamicate world. In this way, this volume seeks to nuance and contextualize our understanding of the relationship between these two medieval cultural spheres."-- Publisher's website.

• Hellas resurgent.--Byzantium: The social basis of decline in the eleventh century.--Byzantine HMOKPATIA and the guilds in the eleventh century.--St. Ionnicius the Great (754-848) and the "Slavs" of Bithynia.--The will of a provincial magnate, Eustathius Boilas (1059).--The question of the Byzantine mines.--An attic hoard of Byzantine gold coins (668-741) from the Thomas Whittemore collection and the numismatic evidence for the urban history of Byzantium.--Review article of Travaux et mémoires, ed. P. Lemerle, vol. 1 (Paris 1965).--Byzantium and Islam, seven-seventeenth century.--Byzantine circus factions and Islamic Futuwwa Organisations (Neaniai, Fityan, Ahdath).--The conditions and cultural significance of the Ottoman conquest in the Balkans.--Seljuk Gulams and the Ottoman Devshirmes.--Isidore Glabas and the Turkish Devshirme.--Review article of B. Papoulia, Ursprung und Wesen der "Knabenlese" im osmanischen Reich (Munich, 1963).