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Stories Between Christianity and Islam : Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durmaz, Reyhan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qurʼan--Christian interpretations.
- Qurʼan.
- Bible. New Testament--Islamic interpretations.
- Bible.
- Christian saints--History--To 1500--Comparative studies.
- Christian saints.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Stories Between Christianity and Islam
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : University of California Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian-Muslim relations that shifts focus from discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. Here, the late antique and medieval Near East is viewed 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 stories of saints were used to 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 hagiographic 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.
- Contents:
- Storytelling in late antique Christianity
- "How is Muhammad a better storyteller than I?"
- Narrating the Quran with Christian saints
- Christian saints in Islamic literature
- From Paul and John to Fīmyūn and Ṣāliḥ
- Stories between Christianity and Islam.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520386471
- 0520386477
- OCLC:
- 1338838057
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