The life of Theodotus of Amida: Syriac Christianity under the Umayyad Caliphate

The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate k...

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Main Authors: Hoyland, Robert G. 1966- (Author), Palmer, Andrew 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Labedan-Kodaş, Charlotte (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 2023
Series:Texts from Christian late antiquity 73
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Summary:The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate knowlredge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precariousness of the lives of those living in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Islamic empires
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XII, 411 Seiten)
ISBN:9781463244101
DOI:10.31826/9781463244101

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