Between Constantinople, the papacy and the caliphate : the Melkite Church in the Islamicate world, 634-969 /

"This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria and, following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt, they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Me...

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