The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700 write by Samuel Noble. This book was released on 2014-03-15. The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All of the texts chosen for this volume are interesting in their own right, but the collection of these sources into a single volume, with helpful introductions and bibliographies, makes this book an invaluable resource for the study of Arabic Christianity and, indeed, the history of Christianity more broadly. ― Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th century. Pre-modern Arab Christian literature embraces such diverse genres as Arabic translations of the Bible and the Church Fathers, biblical commentaries, lives of the saints, theological and polemical treatises, devotional poetry, philosophy, medicine, and history. Yet in the Western historiography of Christianity, the Arab Christian Middle East is treated only peripherally, if at all. The first of its kind, this anthology makes accessible in English representative selections from major Arab Christian works written between the eighth and eigtheenth centuries. The translations are idiomatic while preserving the character of the original. The popular assumption is that in the wake of the Islamic conquests, Christianity abandoned the Middle East to flourish elsewhere, leaving its original heartland devoid of an indigenous Christian presence. Until now, several of these important texts have remained unpublished or unavailable in English. Translated by leading scholars, these texts represent the major genres of Orthodox literature in Arabic. Noble and Treiger provide an introduction that helps form a comprehensive history of Christians within the Muslim world. The collection marks an important contribution to the history of medieval Christianity and the history of the medieval Near East.
˜Theœ Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700
˜Theœ Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ˜Theœ Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700 write by Samuel Noble. This book was released on 2014. ˜Theœ Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831
Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 write by Konstantin Aleksandrovich Panchenko. This book was released on 2016. Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of significant minority religious groups within the predominantly Islamic Middle East. Of these minorities Christians are by far the largest, comprising over 10% of the population in Syria and as much as 40% in Lebanon.The largest single group of Christians are the Arabic-speaking Orthodox. The author draws on archaeological evidence and previously unpublished primary sources uncovered in Russian archives and Middle Eastern monastic libraries to present a vivid and compelling account of this vital but little-known spiritual and political culture, situating it within a complex network of relations reaching throughout the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe.
Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East
Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East write by CONSTANTIN A.. NOBLE PANCHENKO (BRITTANY PHEIFFER. NOBLE, SAMUEL.). This book was released on 2021-03. Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conflict or concord? Histories of Islam from its early seventh century beginnings in Arabia often portray its explosive growth into the wider Middle East as a story of struggle and conquest of the Christian people of Greater Syria, Palestine and Egypt. Alternatively these histories suggest that as often as not the conquerors were welcomed by the conquered and their existing monotheistic faiths of Christianity and Judaism tolerated and even allowed to flourish. In this short but in depth survey of the almost nine centuries that passed from the beginning of the spread of Islam up to the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Syria and Egypt beginning in 1516, Constantin Panchenko offers a more complex portrayal that opens up fresh vistas of understanding of these centuries focusing on the impact that the coming of Islam had on the Orthodox Christian communities of the Middle East and in particular the interplay of their Greek cultural heritage and experience of increasing Arabization. This work is drawn from the author's much larger work, Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans, being an updated and expanded version of the first chapter of that book which set the historical context for the period after 1516. It will deepen the readers understanding both of the history of the Middle East in these centuries and of how the faith of Orthodox Christians in these lands is lived today.
Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World
Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World write by Charles Tieszen. This book was released on 2016-02-28. Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in accusations of idolatry. How did Christians respond to these allegations? Why did they advocate the preservation of a practice that was often met with confusion or even contempt? To shed light onto these questions, Charles Tieszen looks at every known apologetic or polemical text written between the eighth and fourteenth centuries to include a relevant discussion. With sources taken from across the Mediterranean basin, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, the result is the first in-depth look at a key theological debate which lay at the heart of these communities' religious identities. By considering the perspectives of both Muslim and Christian authors, Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World also raises important questions concerning cross-cultural debate and exchange, and the development of Christianity and Islam in the medieval period. This is an important book that will shine much needed light onto Christian-Muslim relations, the nature of inter-faith debates and the wider issues facing the communities living across the Middle East during the medieval period.
