Umayyad Christianity : : John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in Early Islam / / Najib George Awad.
A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during Umayyad Caliphate. It approaches this subject by using John of Damascus and his writings on Islam as a case-study. This provides an exhaustive study of the available historical data in order to stimul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introducing the case
- Chapter Two. On contextuality in historical-theological reasoning: a brief methodological exposition
- Chapter Three. Who was John of Damascus? Or, centralizing Sitz im Leben
- Chapter Four. Yannah Manṣūr Ad-Dimashqī. Sarjūn B. Manṣūr Ar-Rūmī, The Inhabitant Of Damascus
- Chapter Five. John of Damascus's Greek writings in the context of Umayyad Syria-Palestine
- Chapter Six. Umayyad Christianity: forming identity in a changing Sitz im Leben
- Bibliography
- Index