In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religio...

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1. Verfasser:	Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	© 2018
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 650-800 Geschichte 450-650 Kirchengemeinde Eroberung Kulturkonflikt Fremdkultur Ostkirche Religion Islam Christentum Kulturkontakt Gesellschaft Naher Osten Levante
Zusammenfassung:	In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called "the simple" in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, Tannous provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. This provocative book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them
Beschreibung:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:	xiv, 647 Seiten 2 Karten
ISBN:	9780691179094 9780691203157