The First Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (674 – 678): Problems – Iconograpy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preliminary note XI
4. Across the history
5. L’Afrique dans les Ethnika de Stéphane de Byzance 3
6. Arabs, Turks and Chinese in Central Asia during the first third of the 8^th century, under the light of the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions: War and Diplomacy 17
7. The Arabs through Byzantine eyes (11^th-12^th centuries): A change in perception? 27
8. Regional Government and Social Strife in the Exarchate of Africa between the Persian Invasion and the Arab Conquest 55
9. Had the Arabs Military Skills or Tactics during their Early Conquests of Bilād al-Shām? 71
10. East and West: From the Ottoman Empire to Turkey 85
11. Byzantins et Arabes dans l’espace grec aux IX^e et X^e siècles selon les sources hagiographiques locales et contemporaines 91
12. Sea and trade
13. Mamluk ships and seamanship: a reappraisal 109
14. The Fatimid State and Egypt’s Mediterranean Trade 10^th–12^th Centuries 121
15. The reconstruction of the average Arab-Byzantine warship dromon-shīnī 127
16. Sulaymān al-Mahrī and his major work on navigation al-‘Umda al-mahriyya fi ḍ abṭ al-‘ulūm al-baḥriyya (“Mahrian base in precise rendering of navigational sciences”) 133
17. Early Islamic ports of Morocco: situational and socio-economical considerations 155
18. Texts and documents
19. On Greeks and Greek culture in Sudan according to Ibn Ḍayfallāh’s Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt fī khuṣūṣ al-awliyāʾ wa-l-Ṣāliḥīn wa-l- ʽUlamāʾ wa-l-shuʽarāʾ fī l-Sūdān 169
20. An Arabic will written on a ship: P. ACPSI. No. 15 (P. Rag.) 177
21. Diabolus in figura Aethiopis tetri Ethiopians as demons in hagiographic sources: Literary stereotypes versus social reality and historic events 185
22. Egyptian major issues in Eutychius of Alexandria’s Kitāb naẓm al-ǧawāhir 201
23. Medieval inscriptions from the renovated Museum at Jebel Barkal (Sudan) 219
24. The index of kephálaia in the Gospel of Luke in a Greek- Arabic MS from the 11th century (BnF, Suppl. gr. 911) 247
25. Lands, commerce and travellers
26. Sir Thomas Glover, English Ambassador and Consul in Istanbul, 1606-11 269
27. Andreas Libadēnos’ travel to Egypt and Palestine and its description (1325 or 1326) 277
28. Hellenic Elements in a Third Century Chinese Source on Roman Empire 285
29. Art in its context
30. The Perception of the Crusader in Late Byzantine and Early Post-Byzantine Ecclesiastical Painting in Epiros 299
31. The First Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (674 – 678): Problems – Iconograpy 325
32. The Majestatic Representations in the Syriac Vat. Cod. 559 337