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The Syriac world /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: King, Daniel, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
Syrians > Asia > History.
Syrians > Civilization.
Syriac Christians > History.
Syriac literature > History and criticism.
Syriac language > History.
Syrian language > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Backgrounds. The eastern provinces of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity / Muriel Debié
  • The Sasanian Empire / Touraj Daryaee. Part 2. The Syriac world in Late Antiquity. The pre-Christian religions of the Syriac speaking regions / John F. Healey
  • The coming of Christianity to Mesopotamia / David G. K. Taylor
  • Forms of the religious life and Syriac monasticism / Florence Jullien
  • The establishment of the Syriac churches / Volker Menze
  • The Syriac church denominations: an overview / Dietmar W. Winkler
  • The Syriac world in the Persian Empire / Geoffrey Herman
  • Judaism and Syriac Christianity / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
  • Syriac and Syrians in the later Roman Empire: questions of identity / Nathanael Andrade
  • Early Syriac reactions to the rise of Islam / Michael Penn
  • The church of the east in the ʻAbassid Era / David Wilmshurst. Part 3. The Syriac language. The Syriac language in the context of the Semitic languages / Holger Gzella
  • The classical Syriac language / Aaron Michael Butts
  • Writing Syriac: manuscripts and inscriptions / Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet
  • The Neo-Aramaic dialects and their historical background / Geoffrey Khan. Part 4. Syriac literary, artistic and material culture in late antiquity. The Syriac bible and its interpretation / Jonathan Loopstra
  • The emergence of Syriac literature to AD 400 / Ute Possekel
  • Later Syriac poetry / Sebastian P. Brock
  • Syriac hagiographic literature / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • The mysticism of the church of the east / Adrian Pirtea
  • Theological doctrines and debates within Syriac Christianity / Theresia Hainthaler
  • The liturgies of the Syriac churches / Fr Baby Varghese
  • Historiography in the Syriac-speaking world, 300-1000 / Philip Wood
  • Syriac philosophy / John W. Watt
  • Syriac medicine / Grigory Kessel
  • The material culture of the Syrian peoples in Late Antiquity and the evidence for Syrian wall paintings / Emma Loosley
  • Churches in Syriac space: architectural and liturgical context and development / Widad Khoury
  • Women and children in Syriac Christianity: sounding voices / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Syriac agriculture 350-1250 / Michael Decker. Part 5. Syriac Christianity beyond the ancient world. Syriac Christianity in Central Asia / Mark Dickens
  • Syriac Christianity in China / Hidemi Takahashi
  • Syriac Christianity in India / István Perczel
  • The renaissance of Syriac literature in the 12th-13th centuries / Dorothea Weltecke and Helen Younansardaroud
  • Syriac in a diverse Middle East: From the Mongol Ilkhanate to Ottoman dominance, 1286-1517 / Thomas A. Carlson
  • The Maronite church / Shafiq Abouzayd
  • The early study of Syriac in Europe / Robert J. Wilkinson
  • Syriac identity in the modern era / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
  • Changing demography: Christians in Iraq since 1991 / Erica Hunter. Appendices. . I. The patriarchs of the Church of the East
  • II. West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians
  • III. Online resources for the study of the Syriac world.