Explores the significance of the Islamic-Byzantine border from the rise of Islam to the end of the Crusades Presents the first work dedicated entirely to the Islamic-Byzantine Border Provides a comparative perspective, featuring both leading Byzantinists and leading researchers of the Islamic world Uniquely offers a broad chronological perspective, showing the longue dur e rather than focusing on a specific period One of the most formative areas and periods of historical inquiry, across the fields of Mediterranean history, Byzantine history, Islamic history and the history of Muslim-Christian relations, is the long warfare between the Islamic and Christian worlds in the period that began with the Islamic conquests of the formerly Byzantine lands of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 630s CE and ended with the closing of the Crusades in the Levant c.1300 CE. This cross-disciplinary book offers a broad spectrum of essays on important aspects of the political, social, religious and historical importance of the Islamic-Byzantine border between 630-c.1300CE, and in particular on the manifold ways in which the Islamic-Byzantine border affected the internal development and culture of each of the two civilisations. The chapters are written by twelve of the leading scholars in the field, including experts on both the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, and explore developments ranging from anti-government riots and dynastic revolutions to the border's influence on religious law, apocalyptic literature, population policy and heroic culture.

About the Author
D.G. Tor is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, specialising in the history of the pre-thirteenth century Medieval Middle East and Central Asia. Tor's publications include the books Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ?Ayy?r Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (2007); The ?Abbasid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation (2017); together with A.C.S. Peacock, Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation (2015); and, with Minoru Inaba, The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period (2022). Tor has won numerous major research grants and awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the American Council of Learned Societies; the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies; the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies; and Harvard University. Tor is also the Medieval History editor and a board member of the journal Iranian Studies.Alexander D. Beihammer is Heiden Family College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in Byzantine History. His books include Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 (2019); with Maria Parani and Christoph Schabel, Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500: Aspects of Cross-cultural Communication (2008); Quellenkritische Untersuchungen Zu Den Agyptischen Kapitulationsvertragen Der Jahre 640-646 (2000).

Reviews
"This important volume challenges us to rethink how we understand the frontier, both culturally and geographically, between the Byzantine and Islamic worlds from the 7th century CE onwards. Its eleven chapters present cutting-edge research and establish a new baseline from which this key region must now be studied." -John F. Haldon, Princeton University



Book Information
ISBN 9781399513029
Author Deborah Tor
Format Hardback
Page Count 257
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press