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The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary,
compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and
Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring
to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the
birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area
(especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus'). Therefore, it
presents the works written in the Church Slavic language between
the 9th and the mid-16th centuries. As the Old Rus' discourse on
Islam was shaped under the overwhelming influence of Byzantine
literature, the majority of the presented sources are Byzantine
texts from the 6th-14th centuries, translated into the literary
language of the Orthodox Slavs. The reader will also find here a
discussion on several relics, originally created in other languages
of the Christian East (Syriac, Arabic) and the West (Latin), which
- through the Greek - were assimilated on the Slavic ground. This
book aims to fill a gap in previous studies on inter-religious
polemics in the Middle Ages, which has usually focused on
Christian-Muslim cultural relations, analyzing Greek and Latin
texts or the works written in one of the Middle Eastern languages,
almost completely ignoring the Church Slavic heritage. It is worth
noting that a number of the texts presented here (as well as Slavic
translations of Byzantine sources) have not been published so far.
The information on them, provided in this monograph, is therefore
the result of research conducted directly on the manuscript
material.
Tsar Peter (927-969), this book's protagonist, is all too
frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid
of any grander political aspirations, and focused on religious
matters-pious, but neglecting the vital interests of his subjects.
It was said that during his reign both his court and state became
Byzantinized, that central authority was completely helpless in the
face of Hungarian raids, and saw the spread of the Bogomilist
heresy. According to the Tsar's critics, it was as a result of his
ineffectual rule that Boris II, his son and successor, was unable
to defend Bulgaria's sovereignty in 971. This book-the first
monograph devoted to Peter-was written by Bulgarian (Miliana
Kaymakamova, Georgi N. Nikolov, Angel Nikolov, and Nikolay
Hrissimov) and Polish medievalists (Zofia A. Brzozowska, Miroslaw
J. Leszka, Kiril Marinow, and Jan M. Wolski). Thanks to a thorough
analysis of the sources and an in-depth knowledge of the literature
of the subject, they have constructed a comprehensive and balanced
image of the reign of their protagonist and the role he played in
the history of medieval Bulgaria.
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