Seta B. Dadoyan - The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: The Arab Period in Armnyahseventh to Eleventh Centuries

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2011017745

ISBN: 978-1-4128-4577-9

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parsumean-Tatoyean, Seda.

The Armenians in the medieval Islamic world : paradigms of interaction-seventh to fourteenth centuries / Seta B. Dadoyan.

v. cm.

To be complete in 3 vols.--ECIP data.

Contents: v. 1. The Arab period in Arminyah-seventh to eleventh centuries

ISBN: 978-1-4128-4577-9

1. ArmeniansIslamic EmpireHistory. 2. ArmeniaRelationsIslamic Empire. 3. Islamic EmpireRelationsArmenia. I. Title.

DS175.D33 2011

305.891992017670902dc23

2011017745

I dedicate this book to my family, Arsen, Talin, and Daniel
and to my ancestors
the Barsoumians from the east and the Yaylayans
from the west of the
Armenian World

Prologue

Introduction

1. Bild al-Shm in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries and the Armenian Intermezzo

I. The Armenian Intermezzo: Argument for the Classification of the Period as a Unique Phase

II. Emigrations and Settlements in al-ShmNinthTenth Centuries

III. Greeks, Christians, Armenians, Ismls, Hamdnids, Ftimids, Kalbs, and Kilbs in al-Shm during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

IV. The Ghuzz/Turkmens and Seljuks in Asia Minor, Armenia, and al-Shm

A. Early Turkish Penetration and the Armenians

B. Al-Shm in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

C. The Ghuzz in Syria

2. ArmenianByzantine and Armenian Islamic Realpolitik and Peripheral Principalities

I. ArmenianByzantine Realpolitik and Peripheral PrincipalitiesEleventhTwelfth Centuries

II. The TondrakianIsml ConnectionGorg, azar and Toros as Missing Links-Brigands and the Rise of a Heterodox Ruling Class on the Frontiers

III. ArmenianMuslim Realpolitik: MuslimArmenian Powers

A. The Turkish and Turkmen Attires

1. The Nwik/Bwiq/Yruq/Awaqs: Amr Ketri, Ibn Khn, and Aqsiz/Atsiz

2. The Dnishmandids in Cappadocia1055/447H1173/569H

B. Political Converts among Territorial Principalities

1. The Federal State of Philaretus

2. Bn (or Ban) Boghusaks in Siberek/Sewawerak10401200

3. The Armenian Nuayr Ruzzaiks/Ruzzks in Syria

3. The Fimid ArmeniansTranslations of Islam into Power

I. The Armenians in Egypt

II. The Involvement of the Pro-Byzantine Armenian Institutions in Egypt

A. Catholicos Grigor II Martyrophil

B. Vizier Bahrm al-Arman and Caliph al-fiAborted Crusade

III. Muslim Armenian Vizieral Rule 10741163

A. A Hypothesis about the Beginnings of Badr in Aleppo: Al-AmrAzz al-Dawlah

B. The Jaml House of F