1 option
Envisioning Islam : Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world / Michael Philip Penn.
LIBRA BX173.3 .P46 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penn, Michael Philip, author.
- Series:
- Divinations
- Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Syriac Christians--History--To 1500.
- Syriac Christians.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam--History--To 1500.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.
- Islam.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- When good things happened to other people : Syriac memories of the Islamic conquests
- A different type of difference-making : Syriac narratives of religious identity
- Using Muslims to think with : narratives of Islamic rulers
- Blurring boundaries : the continuum between early Christianity and early Islam
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812247220
- 0812247221
- OCLC:
- 893455575
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.