Vice President Ma'ruf Amin on Thursday visited the graves of Muslim scholars Imam Al-Bukhari and Imam Mansur Al-Maturidi during a working visit to .
by Julian Romane Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xiv, 208+. Illus., apppends., references, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 1526782006
The Apex of Byzantine Power
Between 959 and 1025 CE a series of exceptionally capable military and political leaders occupied the throne of the empire that we call “Byzantine,” but that its own Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian people called “Romanía,” expressing their inheritance of the legacy of the Roman Empire. Under Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969), Ioannes (John) Tzimiskes (969-976), and Basil II (976-1025) the embattled empire launched a series of successful counter-offensives against the Muslim Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1258 CE) to the east, and the First Bulgarian Empire (681 - 1018) CE in the Balkans.