The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran : studies in early Islamic history and culture

Author(s)

• Bosworth, Clifford Edmund

Bibliographic Information

The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran : studies in early Islamic history and culture

C.E. Bosworth

（Collected studies series, CS225, C529）

Variorum, 1996

Note

Collection of articles from various publications for the period 1963-1995

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of articles by Professor Bosworth contains a series of studies on the Arab-Persian heartland of the medieval Islamic world, from the Levant to Afghanistan and the borderlands with India. The emphasis is on historical, religious, cultural and literary aspects of the region's history, from pre-Islamic times to the medieval period. A number of the studies focus on the Arab caliphate and the successor dynasties that arose from it in the Iranian world, others focus on Muslim perceptions of other faiths in the Middle East and on the relations of the ruling Muslim institution with its non-Muslim minorities. One particular group is also concerned with the prolonged contacts and interaction between Islam and the Byzantine Empire.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Madyan Shu'ayb in pre-Islamic and early Islamic lore and history
• A note on ta'arrub in early Islam
• Some remarks on the terminology of irrigation practices and hydraulic constructions in the eastern Arab and Iranian worlds in the third-fifth centuries A.H.
• Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Kirmani and the rise of the Barmakids
• Notes on the lives of some 'Abbasid princes and descendants
• The concept of dhimma in early Islam
• The 'Protected Peoples'(Christians and Jews) in medieval Egypt and Syria
• Ghars al-Ni'ma [b.] Hilal al-Sabic's Kitab al-Hafawat an-nadira and Buyid history
• Some historical gleanings from the section on symbolic actions in Qalqasndi's Subh al-a 'sa
• Al-Khwarazmi on the secular and religious titles of the Byzantines and Christians
• The Byzantine defence system in Asia Minor and the first Arab incursions
• Byzantium and the Syrian frontier in the early Abbasid period
• Byzantium and the Arabs: war and peace between two world civilisations
• The city of Tarsus and the Arab-Byzantine frontier in early and middle 'Abbasid times
• Abu 'Amr 'Uthman al Tarsusi's Siyar al-thughur and the last years of Arab rule in Tarsus (4th/10th century)
• The coming of Islam to Afghanistan
• An 'Ayyar coin from Sistan
• Al-Khwarazmi on various faiths and sects, chiefly Iranian
• Rulers of Makran and Qusdar in the early Islamic period
• The rulers of Chaghaniyan in early Islamic times
• The poetical citations in Baihaqi's Ta'rikh-i Mas'udi
• Farrukhi's elegy on Mahmud of Ghazna
• An early Persian Sufi, Shaykh Abu Sa'id of Mayhanah
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA2881565X
• ISBN:
  • 0860785831
• LCCN: 96004771
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt.
• Pages/Volumes: 1 v. (various pagings)
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 227
  • LCC : DS38.3
  • DC20 : 909/.097671
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Islamic Empire
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0041195X