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Author : Chiara Barbati,Vittorio Berti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3700190069
Author : G.J. Reinink
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000945355
The articles in this volume are concerned with the literary responses of the Syriac communities in the Middle East to the drastic political changes of the 7th and 8th centuries, in particular the Persian occupation of the eastern provinces of Byzantium under Khusrau II, and the Islamic conquests and Umayyad rule. Several studies discuss the influential Syriac works concerning Alexander the Great written shortly after AD 628, which present the Byzantine emperor Heraclius as a new Alexander; attention is given to their polemical and propagandistic functions, and to their influence on early apocalyptic texts which respond to the Arab conquests and 'Abd al-Malik's religious propaganda at the end of the 7th century. Other studies deal with the beginnings of Syriac apologetic literature in response to early Islam, discussing texts of the first decades of the 8th century. The remaining articles focus on the religious controversies in the East Syrian community in connection with the increasing political influence of the Syrian Orthodox in Persia by the end of the 6th and the beginning of the seventh century, and the after-effects of Syriac anti-Islamic apologetics in a medieval encyclopedic text.
Author : Dr Neil McLynn,Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou,Dr Daniel L Schwartz
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409457381
The papers in this volume investigate the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: Christianity and Islam. Despite their historical significance, those two movements of conversion have never been systematically compared to each other, and this volume attempts to do this by studying the various issues at stake in conversion for both religions. Some perspectives from the rise of Buddhism in East Asia at roughly the same period have been included so as to avoid remaining within purely Mediterranean and monotheistic models.
Author : Kyle Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520289604
"This book demonstrates that the history of Christianity in the fourth century has been written mainly on the basis of Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to decades, even centuries, after the fact. By closely analyzing these sources--which often exhibit conflicting religious, political, and hagiographical agendas--an evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor begins to emerge. This portrait of Constantine is useful not for re-constructing the events of the fourth century, but for understanding how the Syriac Christians of Roman Mesopotamia and Sasanian Persia used Constantine and the Christians of the West to fashion multiple political and religious identities over a prolonged period of change"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert G. Hoyland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christians
ISBN : 3959941285
This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands--Muslims, Jews and Christians--in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on how the Christian majority were affected by and adapted to their loss of political power in such arenas as language use, identity construction, church building, pilgrimage, and the role of women. Attention is also paid to how the Muslim community defined itself, administered justice, and regulated relations with non-Muslims. This book will be important for anyone interested in the ways in which the cultures and traditions of the late antique Mediterranean world were transformed in the course of the seventh to tenth centuries by the establishment of the new Muslim political elite and the gradual emergence of an Islamic Empire.
Author : H. J. W. Drijvers,Hendrik Jan Willem Drijvers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0860784517
These studies deal with the complex and variegated phenomenon of Syriac Christianity as a cultural system, in and through which the many religious communities in Late Antiquity in the Syriac East identified themselves and came to terms with other religions and changing historical situations.
Author : Daniel King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317482116
This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : David Richard Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004120556
These papers from the Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on "Arab Christianity in Greater Syria in the pre-Ottoman Period" portray aspects of the distinctive character developed by Arab Christianity as it endeavoured to preserve its identity while coming under influences from Islam.
Author : Robert Schick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UOM:39015029219931
Author : Francoise Briquel Chatonnet,Muriel Debie
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300253535
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the present
Author : Richard E. Payne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520286191
Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. ÊThe rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saintsÕ lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries. Ê
Author : Robert Hoyland,Andrew Palmer
Publisher : Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1463244096
The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate knowledge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precariousness of the lives of those living in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Islamic empires.
Author : Michael Philip Penn,Scott Fitzgerald Johnson,Christine Shepardson,Charles M. Stang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520299207
Introduction -- Origin stories -- Poetry -- Doctrine and disputation -- Liturgy -- Asceticism -- Mysticism and prayer -- Biblical interpretation -- Hagiography -- Books, knowledge, and translation -- Judaism -- Islam -- Religions of the Silk Road -- Appendix 1 : translations and editions -- Appendix 2 : biographies of named authors -- Appendix 3 : glossary.
Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199670673
This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.
Author : Wout Jac. van Bekkum,Jan Willem Drijvers,Alexander Cornelis Klugkist
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9042919736
This Festschrift honours Dr. Gerrit Reinink on the occasion of the end of his professional career as a senior lecturer of Syriac and Aramaic studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The Festschrift includes, in addition to a brief biography and a complete bibliography of Reinink's scholarly writings, fifteen articles, arranged according to the chronology of their topics and covering a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the days of Julian the Apostate to the year of the fall of Constantinople, through the period of Late Antiquity, the Byzantine period, early Islam and the Middle Ages. The authors are all prominent experts in the field of Syriac studies and adjacent areas. The title of the book, Syriac Polemics, is a clear reference to one of Reinink's favourite research topics: Eastern Christian reactions to the rise of Islam. This volume is a valuable contribution to the study of Syriac literature and culture in general.