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East and West : essays on Byzantine and Arab worlds in the Middle Ages / edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Vassilios Christides, Theodoros Papadopoullos.
- Title
- East and West : essays on Byzantine and Arab worlds in the Middle Ages / edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Vassilios Christides, Theodoros Papadopoullos.
- Publication
- Piscatway, NJ : Gorgias Press, c2009.
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- Description
- v, 356 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Gorgias Eastern Christian studies ; 15
- Uniform Title
- Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies 15.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Byzantine and Arab worlds in the Middle Ages
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "The present volume ... contains most of the papers delivered at the 10th and 11th International Congresses on Graeco-Oriental and African Studies (in Kryoneri, Attikis, 2005, and in Nicosia, Cyprus 2007 correspondingly), and moreover those papers of the colloquium at the Museum of the City of Athens [Vouros-Eftaxias Foundation] (April 2008)"--Preliminary note.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Essays in English and French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preliminary note / V. Christides -- Across the history -- L'Afrique dans les Ethnika de Stéphane de Byzance / Jehan Desanges -- Arabs, Turks and Chinese in central Asia during the first third of the 8th century, under the light of the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions: war and diplomacy / Stephanos Kordoses -- The Arabs through Byzantine eyes (11th-12th centuries): a change in perception? / Nike Koutrakou -- Regional government and social strife in the exarchate of Africa between the Persian invasion and the Arab conquest / Maria Leontsini -- Had the Arabs military skills or tactics during their early conquests of Bilād al-Shām? / Tarek M. Muhammad -- East and west: from the Ottoman Empire to Turkey / George Tsoutsos -- Byzantins et arabes dans l'espace grec aux IXe et Xe siècles selon les sources hagiografiques locales et contemporaines / Panayotis A. Yannopoulos -- Sea and trade -- Mamluk ships and seamanship: a reappraisal / Vassilios Christides -- The Fatimid state and Egypt's Mediterranean trade 10th-12th centuries / Y.Y. Lev -- The reconstruction of the average Arab-Byzantine warship dromon-shīnī / George K. Livadas -- Sulayamān al-Mahrī and his major work al-'Umda almahriyya fi dabt al-bahriyya ("Mahrian base in precise rendering of navigational sciences") / Theodore Shumovsky (ed. Alexander Matveev) -- Early Islamic ports of Morocco: location and economical considerations / Athena Trakadas -- Texts and documents -- On Greeks and Greek culture in Sudan according to Ibn Dayfallāh's Kitāb al-Tabaqāt fī khusūs al-awliyā, wa-l-Sālihīn wa-l-'Ulamā wa-l-shu'arā fī l-Sūdān / Igor V. Guerasimov -- An Arabic will written on a ship: P. ACPSI. No.15 (P. Rag) / Alia Hanafi -- Diabolus in figura Aethiopis tetri Ethiopians as demons in hagiographic sources: literary stereotypes versus social reality and historic events / Dimitris Letsios -- Egyptian major issues in Eutychius of Alexandria's Kitāb nazm al-ğawāhir / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala -- Medieval inscriptions from the renovated Museum at Jebel Barkal (Sudan) / Alexandros Tsakos -- The index of kephálaia in the gospel of Luke in a Greek-Arabic MS from the 11th century (BnF, Suppl. gr.911) / Ángel Urbán -- Lands, commerce and travellers -- Sir Thomas Glover, English ambassador and consul in Istanbul, 1606-11 / Clifford Edmund Bosworth -- Andreas Libadēnos' travel to Egypt and Palestine and its description (1325 or 1326) / J. Dimitroukas -- Hellenic elements in a third century Chinese source on Roman Empire / Lin Ying -- Art in its context -- The perception of the crusader in late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine ecclesiastical painting in Epiros / Konstantinos Giakoumis -- The first siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (674-678): problems -- iconography / Katerina Karapli -- The majestatic representations in the Syriac vat. cod. 559 / Manuel Marcos Aldón.
- ISBN
- 9781607240563
- 1607240564
- LCCN
- ^^2009029468
- OCLC
- 428436758
- SCSB-12803746
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library