Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History. Byzantina Lodziensia XLI

Cover 1 Tile page 2 Editorial Page 5 Contents 6 Introduction 10 List of Abbreviations 16 I. Ammonius, Relatio on the Slaughter of the Monks of Sinai and Rhaithou 18 II. John Malalas, Chronicle 26 III. The Lives of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger 33 IV. John Moschus, The Spiritual Meadow 49 V. Doctrina Iacobi 60 VI. Sophronius of Jerusalem, Synodical Letter 68 VII. The Quran 75 VIII. The Martyrdom of St. Arethas 80 IX. The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius 92 X. Anastasius of Sinai, Questions and Answers 114 XI. John of Damascus, On Heresies 123 XII. Michael Syncellus, Unknown refutation of Islam 133 XIII. Disputation between a Christian and a Saracen 141 XIV. Theophanes, Chronographia 148 XV. Nicephorus, the patriarch of Constantinople, Concise Chronography 154 XVI. The Life of St. John of Damascus 160 XVII. The Apocalypse of Daniel 165 XVIII. Gregory Decapolite, The Historical Sermon About a Vision Which a Saracen Once Had 186 XIX. The Formula of Abjuration of Islam 192 XX. George the Monk (Hamartolus), Chronicle 199 XXI. The Life of St. Constantine-Cyril (the Philosopher) 207 XXII. The Life of St. Gregentius, archbishop of the Himyarites (St. Gregory of Taphar) 213 XXIII. The Life of St. Basil the Younger 222 XXIV. Nicephorus, The Life of St. Andrew the Fool (Salos) 234 XXV. Symeon Magister and Logothete, Chronicle 249 XXVI. John Zonaras, Epitome historiarum 255 XXVII. Constantine Manasses, Chronicle 262 XXVIII. The Life of St. Theodore of Edessa 268 XXIX. The Story of How Prince Vladimir Chose the Religion 281 XXX. Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica 290 XXXI. Riccoldo da Monte Croce, Contra legem Sarracenorum 298 XXXII. The Sermon on Idols 311 XXXIII. Palaea Interpretata 315 XXXIV. John VI Cantacuzene, Four Apologies, Four Orations against Muhammad 321 XXXV. On Bohmit the Heretic 326 XXXVI. The Tale of the Rout of Mamai 335 XXXVII. Afanasy Nikitin, The Journey Beyond Three Seas 342 XXXVIII. The Tale of the Shameful Saracen Faith 351 XXXIX. Maximus the Greek (Michael Trivolis) 356 Indices 368 Index of People 368 Index of Ethnic and Geographic Names 380 Abstract 386 Bibliographical History,Byzantine-Slavic Literary,Muhammad,islam "The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary, compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the birth of Islam, which were know in the Slavia Orthodoxa area (especially in its eastern part, i.e. Rus')'"--page [4] of cover