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Date:  11 Dec 2002
From: Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch>
Subject:Book on Byzantine Muslim diplomacy

Dear colleagues

My  book on the first hundert years of Byzantine-Muslim diplomacy had
been
out of print for a couple of years. These days, I recieved the first
copies of the reprint. Please, enjoy reading.

All the best, Andreas Kaplony


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Andreas KAPLONY. - Konstantinopel und Damaskus: Gesandtschaften und
Vertraege zwischen Kaisern und Kalifen 639-750: Untersuchungen zum
Gewohnheits-Voelkerrecht und zur interkulturellen Diplomatie. - Berlin:
Klaus Schwarz-Verlag, 1996. 2nd, unchanged edition Berlin 2002. -
Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 208. - ISBN 3-87997-260-5. - EUR 47.00

The research deals with Byzantine-Muslim diplomacy between 639 and 750.
Its interest is not in external affairs nor in theoretical international
law, but in the unwritten rules of intercultural diplomacy, the
"technique
des relations internationales", the common law of international affairs.

The focus is on contacts between sovereign rulers. This means on the
Byzantine side the emperor, relying mainly on Constantinople and Asia
Minor, or, in the case of two emperors in competition, both of them. On
the Muslim side, the clan of the Omayyads, relying mainly on Syria,
monopolizes the contacts, beginning with Mu'awiya when amir of Syria;
their rivals in al-Kufa and in Medina do not get into touch with the
emperors.

The first part deals, one by one, with 51 embassies and treaties, as
they
are found in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac and Armeniac sources,
mentioning
the sources, the references in secondary literature, the details as far
as
known of who is the ambassador, how long does he stay, how long is the
eventual treaty planned for and so on; historical embassies and treaties
are dated. The second part summarizes the first part in asking the same
questions in general.
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