Co-editor Vassilios Christides, Ph.D. 1970.

Table of Contents

• Preliminary note / V. Christides
• Across the history
• L'Afrique dans les Ethnika de Stéphane de Byzance / Jehan Desanges
• Arabs, Turks and Chinese in central Asia during the first third of the 8th century, under the light of the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions: war and diplomacy / Stephanos Kordoses
• The Arabs through Byzantine eyes (11th-12th centuries): a change in perception? / Nike Koutrakou
• Regional government and social strife in the exarchate of Africa between the Persian invasion and the Arab conquest / Maria Leontsini
• Had the Arabs military skills or tactics during their early conquests of Bilād al-Shām? / Tarek M. Muhammad
• East and west: from the Ottoman Empire to Turkey / George Tsoutsos
• Byzantins et arabes dans l'espace grec aux IXe et Xe siècles selon les sources hagiografiques locales et contemporaines / Panayotis A. Yannopoulos
• Sea and trade
• Mamluk ships and seamanship: a reappraisal / Vassilios Christides
• The Fatimid state and Egypt's Mediterranean trade 10th-12th centuries / Y. Y. Lev
• The reconstruction of the average Arab-Byzantine warship dromon-shīnī / George K. Livadas
• Sulayamān al-Mahrī and his major work al-'Umda almahriyya fi dabt al-bahriyya ("Mahrian base in precise rendering of navigational sciences") / Theodore Shumovsky (ed. Alexander Matveev)
• Early Islamic ports of Morocco: location and economical considerations / Athena Trakadas
• Texts and documents
• On Greeks and Greek culture in Sudan according to Ibn Dayfallāh's Kitāb al-Tabaqāt fī khusūs al-awliyā, wa-l-Sālihīn wa-l-'Ulamā wa-l-shu'arā fī l-Sūdān / Igor V. Guerasimov
• An Arabic will written on a ship: P. ACPSI. No.15 (P. Rag) / Alia Hanafi
• Diabolus in figura Aethiopis tetri Ethiopians as demons in hagiographic sources: literary stereotypes versus social reality and historic events / Dimitris Letsios
• Egyptian major issues in Eutychius of Alexandria's Kitāb nazm al-ğawāhir / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
• Medieval inscriptions from the renovated Museum at Jebel Barkal (Sudan) / Alexandros Tsakos
• The index of kephálaia in the gospel of Luke in a Greek-Arabic MS from the 11th century (BnF, Suppl. gr.911) / Ángel Urbán
• Lands, commerce and travellers
• Sir Thomas Glover, English ambassador and consul in Istanbul, 1606-11 / Clifford Edmund Bosworth
• Andreas Libadēnos' travel to Egypt and Palestine and its description (1325 or 1326) / J. Dimitroukas
• Hellenic elements in a third century Chinese source on Roman Empire / Lin Ying
• Art in its context
• The perception of the crusader in late Byzantine and early post-Byzantine ecclesiastical painting in Epiros / Konstantinos Giakoumis
• The first siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (674-678): problems - iconography / Katerina Karapli
• The majestatic representations in the Syriac vat. cod. 559 / Manuel Marcos Aldón.