Syrian Christians Under Islam, the First Thousand Years

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12055-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

This volume contains papers from the Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (September 1998) on the theme of "Arab Christianity in Bilâd al-Shâm (Greater Syria) in the pre-Ottoman Period". It presents aspects of Syrian Christian life and thought during the first millennium of Islamic rule.
Among the eight contributing scholars are Sidney Griffith on ninth-century Christological controversies, Samir K. Samir on the Prophet Muhammed seen through Arab Christian eyes, Lawrence Conrad on the physician Ibn Butlân, and Lucy-Anne Hunt on Muslim influence on Christian book illustrations. There is also a foreword by the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo.
The picture that emerges is of community life developing in its own way and finding a distinctive character, as Christians responded to the social and intellectual influences of Islam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

David Thomas, Ph.D. (1983) in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University, is Reader in Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. He has published studies of the early history of Christian-Muslim relations, including Anti-Christian Polemic in Early Islam (Cambridge, 1992).