How did the Eastern Roman Empire interact with the Abbasid Caliphate? Ft. Al-Muqaddimah

This video covers the various ways the Byzantines and Abbasids interacted with each other during the height of their power from the mid eighth to mid ninth centuries.

Thank you very much to Al-Muqaddimah for making his part about the Umayyad's. You can find his video about daily life in the Abbasid Caliphate here:
https://youtu.be/mSJ5SS--FcQ

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Byzantine-Umayyad Wars by Al-Muqaddimah
05:31 Byzantine-Abbasid Border Wars
09:22 Embassies to the Caliph
11:28 Cultural Exchange and Iconoclasm
14:17 Byzantine Refutations of Islam
16:48 Trade
18:19 The Other in the Caliphate
20:02 Prisoners of War

Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Constantine VII, De Administrado Imperio, edited and translated by
G. Moravcsik and R. J. H. Jenkins, - Revised Edition, (1967).
Constantine VII, The Book of Ceremonies, translated by A. Moffat and M. Tall, (2012).
Genesius, On the Reigns of the Emperors, A. Kaldellis, (1998).
Nicholas I, Letters, edited and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins and L. G. Westerink, (1973).
Nikephoros the Patriarch, Short History, edited and translated by C. Mangom, (1990).
Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia, translated by C. Mango and Roger Scott,
(1997).

Scholarship
Brubaker, L. and Haldon J., Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era 680-850, A History, (2011).
Haldon, J. and Kennedy, H., 'The Arab-Byzantine Frontier in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries Military Organisation and Society in the Borderlands' (1978).
Herrin, J. (1987) The Formation of Christendom, London.
Jankowiak, M 'The First Arab Siege of Constantinople', (2013)
Marcus, J., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791, (1931).
Ramadan, A. Al. M. A, 'The Treatment of Arab Prisoners of War in Byzantium', (2009).
Treadgold, W. (1988) The Byzantine Revival 780-842, Stanford.

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Music Credits:
'Out of Time' by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvotori, from Halo 3 by Bungi.

'War Situation' and 'Theme of the WLO' by Hitoshi Sakimoto, Azusa Chiba and Noriyuki Kamikura from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (2010) by Quest and Square Enix.

Eastern Theme by Nick Wylie from Europa Barbarorum: A Modification of Rome Total War.

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