Christians in Middle Eastern history : strangers no more /

The dazzling array of languages and religions in the Middle East, from Late Antiquity to the present, has long made the region a source of fascination. But the specific features of pluralism in the Middle East have also made writing its history a difficult enterprise, as scholarly specialisation has...

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Other Authors: Ghobrial, John-Paul A., 1980- (Editor), Reynolds, Michael A., 1968- (Editor), Sahner, Christian C. (Editor), Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
Series:Edinburgh studies in Middle Eastern Christianity.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Between Strangers and Friends : Studying the History of the Christian Communities of the Middle East / Jack Tannous
  • 2. The Straight Paths of Christian Law : Reframing the Intellectual History of the Early Caliphate / Lev Weitz
  • 3. A Christian Magnate in Islamic History : Isḥāq ibn Nuṣayr al-ʻIbādī, Arabic Stylist and Patron of the Abbasid Age / Luke Yarbrough and Iyas Nasser
  • 4. The Queen of Akhlāṭ : Arab, Armenian and Kurdish Co-production of Stories about the Islamic Conquests / Alison Vacca
  • 5. Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians in Intersection : Monastic Multiculturalism and Migration, Discourses of Race, and the Problem of Premodern 'Africa' and the 'Middle East' / Stephen J. Davis
  • 6. For Whom the Bell Tolls : Middle Eastern Christians and the So-called 'Counter-Crusade' in Edessa, 1144 CE / Thomas A. Carlson
  • 7. Between Byzantium and the Mamluks : Orthodox Christians in Egypt and Syria during the Fourteenth Century / Johannes Pahlitzsch
  • 8. Why Did the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Behave Like a Muslim Noble? The İstanbul Rum Patriği as Ǎyân / Tom Papademetriou
  • 9. Christian Mountains in the Ottoman Empire / Molly Greene
  • 10. New Literacy and Global Culture among the Christians of Syria (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Bernard Heyberger
  • 11. Protestant Bibles, Middle Eastern Print Cultures and the Making of World Christianity / Heather J. Sharkey.