صورة الروم في المصادر التاريخية العربية خلال القرن الرابع إلى العاشر الهجري العاشر إلى السادس عشر الميلادي)‎

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Through seven centuries, the Byzantine-Muslim Relations changed between peace and war, respect and hatred.

Nevertheless, skimming through Arabic historical sources reveal that there is, among their concern mainly with the war events and Muslims’ superiority over Byzantines, another real concern from Muslim historians, geographers poets and travellers with recording news of their byzantine enemies and to what extent they achieved cultural progress.

These Muslim writers used their own pens to discuss Byzantine ethnic origins, imperial families, and religious beliefs.

They also concerned with describing byzantine geographic map, particularly its central capital [Constantinople].

Their descriptions of the details its streets, squares and palaces were very reasonable.

The recent study aims to examine how these Muslim writers saw their Byzantine enemy, namely his names, ethnic origins, sciences, crafts, customs, traditions, and characters.