Christianity : a history in the Middle East / Habib Badr, chief editor ; Suad Abou el Rouss Slim, assistant editor ; Joseph Abou Nohra, assistant editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badr, Ḥabīb.

Slim, Souad Abou el-Rousse, 1952-

Abū Nahrā, Jūzīf.

Series:

Middle East Council of Churches studies & research program.

Middle East Council of Churches studies & research program

Standardized Title:

Masīḥīhay ʻabr tārīkhihā fī al-Mashriq. English.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Arab countries--History.

Christianity.

History.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

933 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Beirut, Lebanon : Middle East Council of Churches, Studies & Research Program, 2005.

Contents:

The Middle East Council of Churches : a brief presentation

The funding bodies

The Book Committee

Forward [sic] / Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh

Preface / Afaf Deeb-Kandis

Introduction to the Arabic edition / the Editorial Committee

Introduction to the English edition / Habib Badr

Christianity in the 1st century. In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Judaic, Greek, Roman and Asian / Pierre Canivet. In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Coptic civilization / Gawdat Gabra

Christianity in the Middle East, in the 2nd and 3rd centuries / Pierre Maraval

Autocracy and religion in Byzantium, in the 4th and 5th centuries / Alain Ducellier

The rise of Christian thought. Theological thought in the School of Alexandria / Tadros Yacoub Malaty. The theological schools of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis / Sebastian Brock

The shaping of Christian thought. The Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople / Joseph Buhagiar. The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries / Metropolitan Bishoy

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : the Arab Christian tradition / Irfan Shahid

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : churches of the Syriac tradition. The West Syriacs / Mār Sāwirus Isḥāk Sāka. The Assyrians (East Syriacs) / Mār Bawai Soro. The Maronites / Elias Khalifeh el-Hachem

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : churches of the Byzantine tradition / George Aṭiyyeh

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : churches of the Coptic tradition. The Copts / Gawdat Gabra. The Nubians / Gawdat Gabra. The Ethiopians / Getatchew Haili

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage : the Armenian Church : cultural role and heritage / Manoushag Boyadjian

Ascetic movement in the East : origins, development and dissemination. In Egypt / Pope Shenouda III. In Syria, Iraq and Palestine / Shafiq AbouZayd

The deaconess in the Syriac Church / Clémence Hélou

Arab Christianity before the rise of Islam / Irfan Shahid

Christianity in the early Islamic decades (610-660) / Gérard Troupeau

Christianity in the Umayyad era (661-750) / Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim

The role of Christians in the Abbasid renaissance in Iraq and Syria (750-1050) / Samir Khalil Samir

The Copts in the Faṭimīd era / Coptic Center for Social Studies

Christians of the Middle East under the Franks. Motives for the Crusades : a European perspective / Jonathan Riley-Smith. The Crusades : a Middle Eastern perspective / Farah Firzli

Christians in the non-Arab Islamic eras. Christians in the Ayyūbīd era / Farah Firzli. Christians under the Mamlūks / Jorgen Nielsen

Christianity in the first Ottoman era (1516-1650) / Asterios Argyriou

The development of Catholicism in the Middle East (16th to 19th century / Bernard Heyberger

Christians in the second Ottoman era (17th century). [Christians in the second Ottoman era (17th century)] / Vicenzo Poggi. The Copts / Samir Morcos

Catholic missions in the Middle East / Salim Daccache

Evangelical missions and churches in the Middle East. introduction. Lebanon, Syria and Turkey / Habib Badr. Palestine and Jordan / Rafiq Farah. Egypt and Sudan / Adib Naguib Salamah. Iraq and the Gulf / Lewis R. Scudder, Jr.

The renaissance of churches at the end of the Ottoman era (excluding Egypt) : the 18th and 19th centuries / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Revival of the Egyptian church since the middle of the 19th century / Metropolitan Bishoy

Christians and the Arab renaissance / Jerôme Chahine

Origins of the principle of citizenship in the tradition of the Copts and the history of their country / William Suleiman Qalada

Christians in the Arab East : an interpretation of contemporary history / Tarek Mitri

Ecumenism in the Middle East. History / Jean Corbon. A personal experience / Gabriel Habib. Future horizons / Riad Jarjour

Ecumenism on the threshold of the third millenium / Catholicos Aram I.

Notes:

"This book was prepared in cooperation between the Middle East Council of Churches and many churches of the region and some local, regional and international church-related and cultural organizations."--T.p. verso.

Includes errata slip.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [913]-926) and indexes.

ISBN:

9953003432

9789953003436

2825414247

9782825414248

OCLC:

70687673