ABSTRACT
The medieval Arminyah in Arab sources was a very broad area. The early campaigns in the late 630s were the start of Arab predominance, while the establishment of the Seljuk Turks in eastern and central Asia Minor designated its end. The fall of Manazkert/Manzikert in 1071 marked the end of a major period and the beginning of a new one in the Near East. Armenian accounts present great value for the early Arab invasions because the authors were contemporaneous to the events described. Following Arab raid in 652, left alone in the face of Byzantine threats, the governor of Armenia Prince Theodoros visited Damascus and a treaty was signed between him and Muaiyah. As mentioned, over 250 years later, and despite great differences in circumstances, the two rescripts of the Ottoman Tanzimat or reforms were not more than modernized versions of the early Islamic or Medinan system of regulating the status of non-Muslim or dhimmi subjects.
