Arabia, Greece and Byzantium: Cultural Contacts in Ancient and Medieval Times. Volume II

 Riyadh: 2012. Pp. 414. Paperback in dust-wrapper, Condition: Very good in good dust-wrapper.
Contents:
(Rainer Voigt) Language, Script and Society in South Arabia and on the Horn of Africa;
(John F. Healey) Between Rome and Arabia: the Aramaic Interface;
(Zeyad Mustafa Al-Shorman) The Assimilation of Dushara – Ḍwšara in Greco-Roman Period;
(Christian Julien Robin) Les rois de Kinda;
(El-Nowieemy, Magda) Arabia in Roman Sources: The Evidence of Latin Poetry;
(Alia Hanafi) Some Greek and Arabic Documents;
(Albrecht Berger) Christianity in South Arabia in the 6th Century AD – Truth and Legend;
(Robert Hillenbrand) Reflections on the Mosaics of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus;
(Panayotis Yannopoulos) L’origine des informations byzantines au sujet de l’Arabie préislamique;
(Carole Hillenbrand) Sayf al-Dawla, al-Mutanabbī and Byzantium: The Evidence of a Textile;
(M. Tahar Mansouri) Les échos des conquêtes arabes dans les sources byzantines et l’évolutions des relations vers la reconnaissance mutuelle (VIIe-Xe siècles);
(Sophia Patoura) The Byzantine Court and the Arab Caliphate: Mutual Attempts at Rapprochement at the Peak of the Arab-Byzantine Struggle (9th-10th c.);
(Alkiviadis Ginalis) A Preliminary Introduction to the Comparison of Maritime Traditions in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean from the 1st to the 15th Century AD;
(Vasilios Christides) Sailing in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Imaginary Creatures in Some Byzantine and Arab Illuminations: The Unicorn (Monocerōs);
(Tarek M. Muhammad) Clysma in the Literary and Documentary Arab Sources;
(Stephanos M. Kordoses) Arab Advance along the Southern Part of the Silk Route, Gesar Phrom and Fu-lin (拂菻) of the Chinese Sources;
(Lin Ying and Yu Yusen) The Arab Empire in Chinese Sources from the 8th Century to the 10th Century;
(Nike Koutrakou) The Eastern Luxury Nexus in Middle - Byzantine Literature: A Reality Check;
(Eleonora Kountoura Galaki) Arabia, Egypt and Syria in Byzantine Hagiographical Works during the Late Byzantine and Ayyubid Periods;
(Maria Leontsini) Byzantine References to the Flora and Fauna of the Arabian Peninsula and the Classical Greek Tradition (4th -12th c. AD);
(Anne Mccabe) Greek Horse Medicine in Arabic;
(Geor Soutsos and Christos Teazis) Piri Reis’s Greek and Arabic Influences in his Chart and Map Creations for the Ottoman Empire;
Summaries of the contributions in Arabic language (Vol. I);
(C. Hillenbrand) Conclusions of the Symposium.