By A. Asa Eger

The retreat of the Byzantine military from Syria in round 650 CE, earlier than the impending Arab armies, is person who has resounded emphatically within the works of either Islamic and Christian writers, and created an everlasting motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. for hundreds of years, Byzantine and Islamic students have evocatively sketched a contested border: the yearly raids among the 2, the road of fortified fortresses protecting Islamic lands, the no-man’s land in among and the start of jihad. of their early representations of a Muslim-Christian stumble upon, bills of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier are charged with importance for a destiny ‘clash of civilizations’ that frequently envisions a polarised international. A. Asa Eger examines the 2 points of this frontier: its actual and ideological ones. via highlighting the archaeological learn of the true and fabric frontier, in addition to acknowledging its ideological army and spiritual implications, he bargains a extra complicated imaginative and prescient of this dividing line than has been usually disseminated. With research grounded in archaeological proof to boot the suitable ancient texts, Eger brings jointly a nuanced exploration of this very important part of medieval history.

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