The Arabs, Byzantium, and Iran : studies in early Islamic history and culture / C.E. Bosworth

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 "Abbasid 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 "Abbasid 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