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Pirate Hunting: The Fight Against Pirates, Privateers, and ...
Benerson LittleVassilios Christides, “Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare” ( Athens: Institute for Byzantine Studies, 1996), 271. Buhours, Life, 66–67. Díaz de Gámez, Unconquered Knight, 57–58, 84–89. Buhours, Life, 93 Ibid. See, for example, Lewis and Runyan, European Naval and Maritime History, 51. Vassilios Christides, “Some Remarks on the Mediterranean and Red Sea Ships in Ancient and Medieval Times, Part II,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Ship ...
Byzantine Libya and the march of the Arabs towards the west ...
Vassilios ChristidesProfessor Christides assesses the political situation on the eve of the first Arab raid, the raids themselves and the sources available for studying them, as well as the causes and consequences of the Byzantine loss of North Africa and the ...
Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia
PreviewCambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Barakat, Wafiq. Fann al-Harb al-Bahriyya fı l-Ta''rikh al-''Arabi al-Islami. Aleppo: Ma''had al-Turath al-''Ilmi al-'' Arabi, 1995. Brice, William C. ''''Compasses, Compassi and Kanabıs.'''' Journal of Semitic Studies 29 (1984): 169–78. Castello, Francesc. ''''Arab Cartography.'''' In Aspects of Arab Seafaring: An Attempt to Fill in the Gaps of Maritime History, eds. Yacoub Yousef and Vassilios Christides. Athens, 2002. Christides, Vassilios. '''' Milaha.
The conquest of Crete by the Arabs (ca. 824): a turning ...
Vassilios ChristidesBut, as Sadik Assaad has shown, Hakim''s severe measures were actually a cover-up to placate his Moslem citizens who were vexed by his reliance on the a h 1 ad h-d h i m m a h in the highest levels of his administration88. Actually, Hakim never ceased to rely on the ahl a d h-d h i m m a h in his administration89. Unfortunately, there is a very limited number of sepulchral inscriptions from the Arabic period in Crete, shedding no light on the problems of Christianity at that time90.
Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean: ...
Benjamin ArbelVassilios. Christides. In a recent article I cautiouslyadvancedthe view that the single rudder could have been invented by the Chinese and transmittedvia theArabstothe Mediterranean.1 At that time I emphasized the sparseevidence in my possession, hoping to supplement my initial hypothesis withfurther concretearguments. At the Fifth International Conference on AncientShip Construction,which took place in Nauplion in August 1993, Lucien Basch flatly denied any such possibility, ...
The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great (Second Edition)
Andrew ChuggHowever, Vassilios Christides has recently disputed whether “demas” can bear this interpretation in this context and there is anyway no definite connection with the Soma in any of this.45 In addition, de Zogheb tells of a visit by Mahmoud Bey to the vaults beneath the Nabi Daniel Mosque.46 He entered a large chamber with an arched roof on the ground level of the ancient town. From this paved crypt , inclined corridors ran out in four directions. They were, however, too lengthy and ...
Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the ...
Jonathan Conant... to Egypt each winter.256 The following thirty years saw further raids and counter-raids, through the course of which the empire seems generally to have maintained its grasp over the cities of the coastal littoral, but gradually to have lost control of the interior.257 As Vassilios Christides has recently observed, though, the Arabic sources indicate that the Af ̄ariqa, the Romano-African population, consistently and wholeheartedly sided with the Byzantines in these struggles.258 Finally, ...
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
Nadia Maria El-CheikhDumbarton Oaks Papers 18 (1964): 114-132; Vassilios Christides, The Image of the Pre-lslamic Arab in the Byzantine Sources (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1970); Alain Ducellier, "Mentalite historique et realites politiques: L''Islam et les Musulmans vus par les Byzantins du XHIeme siècle," Byzan- tinische Forschungen 4 (1972): 31-63; Speros Vryonis, "Byzantine Attitudes towards Islam during the Late Middle Ages," Byzantina kai Metabyzantina 2 (1981): 263-286; Elizabeth ...
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