When Christians first met Muslims : a sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam / Michael Philip Penn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penn, Michael Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--History--To 1500--Sources.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500--Sources.

Syriac Christians--History--To 1500--Sources.

Syriac Christians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam, describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic.Through its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical material, When Christians Fir

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Year 630; Introduction; Account ad 637; Chronicle ad 640; Letters, Isho'yahb III; Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem; Khuzistan Chronicle; Maronite Chronicle; Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor; Canons, George I; Colophon of British Library Additional 14,666; Letter, Athanasius of Balad; Book of Main Points, John bar Penkāyē ; Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius; Edessene Apocalypse; Exegesis of the Pericopes of the Gospel, Hṇanisho' I; Life of Theodutẹ̄ ; Colophon of British Library Additional 14,448; Apocalypse of John the Little; Chronicle ad 705

Letters, Jacob of EdessaChronicle, Jacob of Edessa; Scholia, Jacob of Edessa; Against the Armenians, Jacob of Edessa; Kāmed Inscriptions; Chronicle of Disasters; Chronicle ad 724; Disputation of John and the Emir; Exegetical Homilies, Mār Abbā II; Disputation of Bēt Hạlē ; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-96057-2