Michael Philip Penn

Envisioning Islam

Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The earliest and largest corpus of Christian writings on Islam was written in the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Envisioning Islam shows how these previously neglected texts problematize modern perceptions of an exclusively hostile Christian reaction to Islam and revolutionize our understanding of the early Islamic world.

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Produktdetails

• Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224023
• ISBN-10: 0812224027
• Artikelnr.: 48820689

Autorenporträt

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.

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