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