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Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues My book on the first hundert years of Byzantine-Muslim diplomacy had been out of print for a couple of years. These days, I recieved the first copies of the reprint. Please, enjoy reading. All the best, Andreas Kaplony ****************************************************** Andreas KAPLONY. - Konstantinopel und Damaskus: Gesandtschaften und Vertraege zwischen Kaisern und Kalifen 639-750: Untersuchungen zum Gewohnheits-Voelkerrecht und zur interkulturellen Diplomatie. - Berlin: Klaus Schwarz-Verlag, 1996. 2nd, unchanged edition Berlin 2002. - Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 208. - ISBN 3-87997-260-5. - EUR 47.00 The book might be ordered at: http://www.klaus-schwarz-verlag.com/ or by writing to: [log in to unmask] ****************************************************** The research deals with Byzantine-Muslim diplomacy between 639 and 750. Its interest is not in external affairs nor in theoretical international law, but in the unwritten rules of intercultural diplomacy, the "technique des relations internationales", the common law of international affairs. The focus is on contacts between sovereign rulers. This means on the Byzantine side the emperor, relying mainly on Constantinople and Asia Minor, or, in the case of two emperors in competition, both of them. On the Muslim side, the clan of the Omayyads, relying mainly on Syria, monopolizes the contacts, beginning with Mu'awiya when amir of Syria; their rivals in al-Kufa and in Medina do not get into touch with the emperors. The first part deals, one by one, with 51 embassies and treaties, as they are found in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac and Armeniac sources, mentioning the sources, the references in secondary literature, the details as far as known of who is the ambassador, how long does he stay, how long is the eventual treaty planned for and so on; historical embassies and treaties are dated. The second part summarizes the first part in asking the same questions in general. ****************************************************** -------------------------- PD Dr. Andreas Kaplony. Orientalisches Seminar, Universitaet Zuerich, Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich. 0(041)1 634 07 36, 0(041)1 634 36 92 (Fax). [log in to unmask] Projekt "Handel in Zentralasien": www.ori.unizh.ch/kaplony/zentralasien Projekt "Arabic Papyrology School": www.ori.unizh.ch/aps Forschungskolloquium Islamwissenschaft Schweiz: www.ori.unizh.ch/foki