Abstract
Early Muslims conquest of both empires of Eastern Romans and Persians brought
lots of slaves, wealth and sources in the form of materials, and knowledge in
Arabia, which initiated cultural diffusion in Arabia and Muslims became familiar
with the Greek and Romans tradition of historical knowledge. Muslim historians
amalgamated the external and internal world views of knowledge into a new
paradigm and developed new forms of historical work such as the geographical
histories and universal histories. Muslim historians described the formation of
Roman Empire and development of Constantinople and its relations with Arabs
and Islamic empire. Muslim sources narrated the wars of Arab Muslims towards
Constantinople under the religio-political paradigm. Muslims historiographical
work explained less about the Arab Muslims siege and attack on Constantinople
but emphasized the reasons which forced them to fight against the Romans. For
example, Tabari described seasonal raids of Arab Muslims on the lands of Romans
at the end of each annual year. Two major Arab Muslims sieges and attacks were
made on Constantinople in the seventh and the eighth centuries, first, in the time
of Caliph Muawiya (R.A) and second in the time of Caliph Sulayman bin Abdul
Malik. Despite the conquests on all fronts, Arab Muslim armies failed in their
attempts to conquer Constantinople, because of internal political crises,
environmental hindrance and fortification of Constantinople.
Abdul Zahoor Khan , Syed Akmal Hussain Shah, Abdul Basit Mujahid, Muhammad Raza Taimoor. (2020) Historiography Of The Arab Muslim's Barricade Of Constantinople: A Critical Appraisal, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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