The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier
Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2017
Summary
The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested border: the annual raids between the two, the line of fortified fortresses defending Islamic lands, the no-man’s land in between and the birth of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784539191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784539198 |
| Author: | A. Asa Eger |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | I.B. Tauris |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 136mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Library Of Middle East History |
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A. Asa Eger
A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago.
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