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Stories between Christianity and Islam : saints, memory, and cultural exchange in late antiquity and beyond / Reyhan Durmaz.
Loaned to Another Library BP172 .D845 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durmaz, Reyhan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and other religions--Islam--History--To 1500.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.
- Islam.
- Muslim saints--History--To 1500--Comparative studies.
- Muslim saints.
- Christian saints--History--To 1500--Comparative studies.
- Christian saints.
- Christianity.
- Interfaith relations.
- Islamic interpretations of sacred works.
- Qurʼan--Christian interpretations.
- Qurʼan.
- Bible. New Testament--Islamic interpretations.
- Bible.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Genre:
- Comparative studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian-Muslim relations that shifts focus back from worn-out discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. The late antique and medieval Near East is often defined as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where men and women used the stories of saints to publicly interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future. In this book, Reyhan Durmaz uses these stories to demonstrate and analyze the mutually constitutive relationship between these two religions in the Middle Ages. With an in-depth study of storytelling in late antiquity and the mechanisms of hagiographical transmission between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages, Durmaz develops a nuanced understanding of saints' stories as a tool for building identity, memory, and authority across confessional boundaries."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Narrating Stories
- Sorting Stories
- Remembering Stories
- 1. Storytelling in Late Antique Christianity
- Hagiography and Orality
- A World of Storytelling
- Storytellers in Late Antique Christianity
- Hagiographic Interviews and Audience Participation
- 2. "How Is Muhammad a Better Storyteller Than I?"
- Who Is Narrating?
- Storytelling in the Quran
- The Broader Late Antique Context of Quranic Storytelling
- Functions of Storytelling in Muhammad's Preaching
- Narrating Stories after Muhammad
- 3. "Ask Him about the Youths": Narrating the Quran with Christian Saints
- Q18 the Cave
- The Companions of the Cave
- The Rich Man and the Poor Man
- Moses, the Unnamed Servant of God, and the Two-Horned
- 4. Christian Saints in Islamic Literature
- Remembering Saint Antony
- South Arabian Historiography and Alexander the Believing King
- Saint George in Al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings
- Looking at Buildings, Narrating Saint Marutha
- 5. From Paul and John to Flmyun and Salih
- Transformation of a Story
- Ibn Ishaq on the Authority of Wahb b. Munabbih
- Flmyun and Salih in Context
- 6. Stories between Christianity and Islam
- Monks, Monasticism, and the Islamic Notion of Sanctity
- Authorship and Transmission of Hagiographic Knowledge
- Narratives in and of the Family
- Abbreviations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Durmaz, Reyhan. Stories between Christianity and Islam
- ISBN:
- 9780520386464
- 0520386469
- OCLC:
- 1295617665
- Publisher Number:
- 99992113756
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