The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture

Contents: Preface Madyan Shua ayb in pre-Islamic and early Islamic lore and history A note on taa arrub in early Islam Some remarks on the terminology of irrigation practices and hydraulic constructions in the eastern Arab and Iranian worlds in the third-fifth centuries A.H. Abu Hafs a Umar al-Kirmani and the rise of the Barmakids Notes on the lives of some a princes and descendants The concept of dhimma in early Islam The a Protected Peoplesa (TM)(Christians and Jews) in medieval Egypt and Syria Ghars al-Nia ma [b.] Hilal al-Sabica (TM)s Kitab al-Hafawat an-nadira and Buyid history Some historical gleanings from the section on symbolic actions in Qalqasndia (TM)s Subh al-a a sa Al-Khwarazmi on the secular and religious titles of the Byzantines and Christians The Byzantine defence system in Asia Minor and the first Arab incursions Byzantium and the Syrian frontier in the early Abbasid period Byzantium and the Arabs: war and peace between two world civilisations The city of Tarsus and the Arab-Byzantine frontier in early and middle a times Abu a Amr a Uthman al Tarsusia (TM)s Siyar al-thughur and the last years of Arab rule in Tarsus (4th/10th century) The coming of Islam to Afghanistan An a Ayyar coin from Sistan Al-Khwarazmi on various faiths and sects, chiefly Iranian Rulers of Makran and Qusdar in the early Islamic period The rulers of Chaghaniyan in early Islamic times The poetical citations in Baihaqia (TM)s Taa (TM)rikh-i Masa udi Farrukhia (TM)s elegy on Mahmud of Ghazna An early Persian Sufi, Shaykh Abu Saa id of Mayhanah Index.