The late antique world of early Islam : Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean / Robert G. Hoyland (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoyland, Robert G., 1966- editor.

Series:

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 25.

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Middle East--History.

Muslims.

Christians--Middle East--History.

Christians.

Jews--Middle East--History.

Jews.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Islam--Relations--Judaism.

Christianity--Relations--Islam.

Christianity.

Christianity--Relations--Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Islam.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Middle East--Ethnic relations.

Middle East.

Middle East--History.

Islamic Empire--History.

Islamic Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 469 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands-Muslims, Jews and Christians-in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on how the Christian majority were affected by and adapted to their loss of political power in such arenas as language use, identity construction, church building, pilgrimage, and the role of women. Attention is also paid to how the Muslim community defined itself, administered justice, and regulated relations with non-Muslims.<br><br>This book will be important for anyone interested in the ways in which the cultures and traditions of the late antique Mediterranean world were transformed in the course of the seventh to tenth centuries by the establishment of the new Muslim political elite and the gradual emergence of an Islamic Empire.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Maps

List of Figures

Introduction Robert Hoyland

I Social Groups

1 Minority Representation in the Futūḥ Miṣr of Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥakam: Origins and Roles Edward Coghill

2 Greek as a Minority Language in Early Islamic Egypt Janneke De Jong and Alain Delattre

3 Christian Women in Muslim Egypt: a Public Minority Gesa Schenke

II Law

4 The Scholiasts Speak: How Middle Byzantine Jurists Construed the Legal Status of Jews Zachary Chitwood

5 Christian and Jewish Communities in Fusṭāṭ: Non-Muslim Topography and Legal Controversies in the Pre-Fatimid Period Audrey Dridi

6 Dispensing Justice in a Minority Context: the Judicial Administration of Upper Egypt under Muslim Rule in the Early Eighth Century Mathieu Tillier

7 Polygyny and East Syrian Law: Local Practices and Ecclesiastical Tradition Lev Weitz

III Material Culture

8 Tracing Influences in Mozarabic Material Culture: Building Teclinology in 8-10th century Hispanic Churches Isaac Sastre de Diego and María Ángeles Utrero

9 The Monasteries of the Wādī al-Naṭrūn between Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ: A Long Transition Viewed from the Pottery (Sixth to Tenth Centuries) Alexandra Konstantinidou

10 Paris Syr. 341 and its Illustrations Maja Kominko

IV Theology and Practice

11 Anastasius of Sinai and Chalcedonian Christian Lay Piety in the Early Islamic Near East Nicholas Marinides

12 Portraying Early Islam as the milla of Abraham - A Look at the Tafsīr Evidence Jacob Olidort

13 Monasticism in Early Islamic Palestine: Contours of Debate Daniel Reynolds

14 Islamic Legends about the Birth of Monasticism: A Case Study on the Late Antique Milieu of the Qur'ān and Tafsīr Christian c. Sahner

15 The Syriac Baptism Of St John: A Christian Ritual of Protection for Muslim Children David G.K. Taylor

Index.

Notes:

First published in 2015 by Darwin Press Inc, Princeton, NJ

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).

ISBN:

3-95994-129-3

OCLC:

1225622321