The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World

Seta B. Dadoyan

Contents of Forthcoming Volumes in This Series
Transliteration Tables
Prologue
Introduction
I. Armenian Historiography and the
Book as an Argument
II. Introduction to Volume One
1. Factors in the Pre-Islamic Armenian Condition—
Fourth–Seventh Centuries
I. East–West Rivalries: Kings, Catholicoi,
Naxarars, Common People
II. The Cultural Policies and the Legacy of
Fundamental Loyalties of the Classical Age
III. Defi nitions of Armenian Orthodoxy and
the Synthesis of Eznik (mid-Fifth Century)
A. The Book of Dissidents or Refutation
of Sects (Ec Aandoc')
B. The Fundamentals of Eznik's Synthesis
IV. Early Armenian Social–Religious Dissent
A. The Eustathian Heretics of Sivs—Canons of
the Council of Gangra (c.374)
B. The Councils of sahapiwan (447/8) and Dwin
(554/5)—Messalians, Nestorians, Paulicians
2. Early Arab Campaigns and the Regulation of
Relations According to the Mednan Legacy
I. Medieval Armnyah between Byzantium
and the Islamic World—The Early Period
II. A Brief Survey of Sources—Arab and Armenian
III. Early Arab Campaigns: Armnyah between
Arabs and Byzantines
IV. Regulation of Islamic–Armenian Relations
A. The Treaty of Mu'wiyah (652)
B. The Treaty of Habb Ibn Maslamah (654)
V. The Mednan Legacy as Paradigm for
Islamic–Armenian Treatises
A. The 652 Treaty as a Link in the Tradition of
Mednan Oath
B. The Alleged "Prophet's Oath to the Armenians,"
and the Jerusalem Connection
3. The Umayyad Period and the Reconfirmation of Oaths
I. The Early Decades
II. Change of Status in 692–693/73H
III. Muhammad Ibn Marwn, the Rebellion of 703
and the Reconfi rmation—Th e "Little Man sr"
IV. Continuation of the Legacy: Th e "Covenant"
of Caliph'Umar II to Catholicos jnec'i
V. The Later Umayyad Period in Armenia: Dissidence
and Heterodoxy as Paradigms of Interaction
4 The Armenians in the'Abbsid World—Th e Paradigms
of Borderlands and Dissidence
I. The'Abbsids and the Persian–Islamic Legacies
II. The'Abbsid Project of Borderlands
III. Armenia under the'Abbsids to the Year 862/248H
IV. The Arab Tribal Emirates in Armenia
V. Dissident Versus Orthodox Politics—Paulicians,
Babakians, and T'ondrakians
A. Social Unrest in Apahunik' and Siwnik' in the
Ninth–Tenth Centuries
B. Paulicians, T'ondrakians, and Babakians—
Paradigm of Near Eastern Dissidence
VI. Paradigms of Syncretism and the Borderlands:
The Paulician–Muslim Alliance—Digenis Akritis
as History
A. The Paulicians and the Muslim Alliance
B. Digenis Akritis: Epic and History
C. Digenis Akritis: Summary and Highlights of
the Grottoferrata and Escorial Versions
5 Armenian Dynastic Principalities or the
"Age of Kingdoms"
I. The Bagratunis and Arcrunis
II. The Tenth Century: Prosperity and Turmoil
III. The Hamdnids in Armenia and North Shm
IV. The "Crusade" of Tzimiskes and Armenian
Settlements
V. Basil II the "Bulgar-Slayer" (976–1025) and
the Armenians—Th e Watershed
VI. The Last Armenian "Kingdoms"
VII. Reformist-T'ondrakian Episodes—1000–1054/5
Summary: The Arguments in Volume One
Bibliography
Appendix
Index