The spaces between the teeth
Subtitle: a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier
By: Asa Eger
Publisher: Ege Yayınları
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9786055607784
Subjects: Gazetteers; Boundaries; Land settlement; Landscape archaeology; Relations; History
Other titles: Gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier
Notes: "Through Islamic and Christian histories, an ideology has been maintained, persuasively and persistently, that their borders and bordering states were militarized and impenetrable. A paradigmatic example is the seventh to ninth century Islamic-Byzantine borderland (al-thughūr), a space frequently addressed in scholarship on Muslim and Christian holy wars, armies and raids, castles, and often treated as an abandoned land. [...] Although Islamic and Byzantine sources describe the Byzantine border in less detail, they suggest, quite differently, a region scattered with an informal group of intermittent small fortresses held by an ad hoc local militia. Byzantines reciprocated raids into Islamic territory, and so the literature of these frontier castles contains numerous accounts of destruction, rebuilding, and further devastation."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.