The making of the Medieval Middle East: religion, society, and simple believers

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion...

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Main Author: Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Levant / Near East / Islam / Conquest / Society / Christianity / Cultural conflict / Cultural contact / History 450-800
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Middle East-Religion-History-To 1500
B Christians-Middle East-History
B Christianity and other religions
B Christians (Middle East) History
B Religion and culture
B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Middle East Religion History
B Christians
B Religion and culture History To 1500
B Church History To 1500
B Middle East Religion
B Middle East-Church history
B Middle East Church history
B Religion / Christianity / History
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Summary:A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East’s history.What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, Tannous provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East.This provocative book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:069118416X
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9780691184166