The Making of the Medieval Middle East : : Religion, Society, and Simple Believers / / Jack Tannous.
A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Simple Belief
- CHAPTER 1: Theological Speculation and Theological Literacy
- CHAPTER 2: The Simple and the Learned
- Part II: Consequences of Chalcedon
- CHAPTER 3: ‘Confusion in the Land’
- CHAPTER 4: Contested Truths
- CHAPTER 5: Power in Heaven and on Earth
- CHAPTER 6: Competition, Schools, and Qenneshre
- CHAPTER 7: Education and Community Formation
- Interlude: The Question of Continuity
- CHAPTER 8: Continuities—Personal and Institutional
- Part III: Christians and Muslims
- CHAPTER 9: A House with Many Mansions
- CHAPTER 10: A Religion with a Thousand Faces
- CHAPTER 11: Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority
- CHAPTER 12: Conversion and the Simple—The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- CHAPTER 13: Finding Their Way—The Mosque in the Shadow of the Church
- Part IV: The Making of the Medieval Middle East
- CHAPTER 14: Rubbing Shoulders A Shared World
- CONCLUSION: Dark Matter and the History of the Middle East
- APPENDIX I. Approaching the Sources
- APPENDIX II. The ‘Arab’ Conquests
- Abbreviations
- Works Cited
- Permissions
- Index