Steven Fine

Carol Snow

Edward Bleiberg

Lawrence Nees

Lisa R. Brody

Claus-Peter Haase

Arnold E. Franklin

Alan Gampel

Lyle Humphrey

Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

Annie Montgomery Labatt

Robert Schick

Building on the groundbreaking 2012 exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” which explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century, the present volume extends the exhibition catalogue’s innovative investigation of cultural interaction between Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. Eleven essays by internationally distinguished scholars address such topics as the transmission of Christian imagery to the Mediterranean, icons preserved in The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai, interaction between Jewish communities and the Muslim world, the purposeful mutilation of figurative floor mosaics in places of worship, the evolution of classical and Byzantine motifs in a new cosmology for Muslim rulers, and interconnections in the realm of music. Each essay provides compelling evidence that the era of transition from Byzantine to Islamic rule in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa resulted in unprecedented cultural cross-fertilization and significantly affected the development of the Mediterranean world for centuries to come.

Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Age of Transition

Gail L. Hoffman

"This publication is published in conjunction with the exhibition Dura-Europos: crossroads of antiquity organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College."--Tp. verso.

Crossroads of Antiquity

Dura-Europos

David Sacks

Oswyn Murray

Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World

Lisa R. Brody

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