Envisioning Islam : : Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World / / Michael Philip Penn.
The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive desc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. When Good Things Happened to Other People: Syriac Memories of the Islamic Conquests
- Chapter 2. A Different Type of Difference- Making: Syriac Narratives of Religious Identity
- Chapter 3. Using Muslims to Think With: Narratives of Islamic Rulers
- Chapter 4. Blurring Boundaries: The Continuum Between Early Christianity and Early Islam
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments