Michael Philip Penn

Envisioning Islam

Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Philip Penn is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is author of Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and editor of When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247220
• ISBN-10: 0812247221
• Artikelnr.: 42204304

Autorenporträt

Michael Philip Penn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Chapter 1. When Good Things Happened to Other People: Syriac Memories of
the Islamic Conquests
Chapter 2. A Different Type of Difference-Making: Syriac Narratives of
Religious Identity
Chapter 3. Using Muslims to Think With: Narratives of Islamic Rulers
Chapter 4. Blurring Boundaries: The Continuum Between Early Christianity
and Early Islam
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments