The Byzantine Empire was the Islamic commonwealth's first and most
stubborn adversary. For many centuries it loomed large in Islamic
diplomacy, military operations and commerce, as well as in Islamic
representations of the world in general. Moreover, the ways in
which early Muslims and Byzantines perceived one another " both
polemically and otherwise " afterwards proved decisive for the
mutual perceptions between the Islamic world and Christian Western
Europe. For these and other reasons, Arab-Byzantine relations have
been a major concern of modern scholarship on early Islam for well
over a century. Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times
presents some of the most important of these contributions,
organized according to the following themes: war and diplomacy;
frontiers and military organization; polemics and images of the
'other'; exchange, influence and convergence; and martyrdom, jihad
and holy war. An introductory essay discusses these themes within
the contexts of early Islamic society, politics and economy.
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