The Christian heritage of Iraq: collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I - V Seminar Days
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2009
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Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies (13)
Year: 2009 |
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Series/Journal: | Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies
13 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iraq
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Further subjects: | B
Christianity
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Iraq
B Christianity and other religions Congresses Islam Iraq B Christianity (Iraq) Congresses B Islam B Islam Congresses Relations Christianity Iraq B Christianity and other religions Islam (Iraq) Congresses B Christianity and other religions B Islam Relations Christianity (Iraq) Congresses B Iraq Congresses Church history B Christianity B Iraq B Conference program |
Item Description: | "This volume presents a selection of papers given at the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days that have been held annually at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies since 2004. - Includes bibliographical references. - Preface -- Foreword / by His Grace Louis Sako, Chaldæan Archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq -- Iraqi Christians should remain in their land to uphold their millennial multi-heritage -- The Patriarch Itoyahb III and the Christians of Qatar in the first Islamic century / John Healey -- Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in early Abbasid Iraq / John Watt -- Patriarch Timothy and an aristotelian at the Caliph's court / Sidney Griffith -- The great monastery at Mount Izla and the defence of the East-Syrian identity / Florence Jullien -- The cultural contribution of monasticism in Iraq / Sebastian Brock -- Der mir Behnam, the Monastery of Saint Behnam / Suha Rassam -- The Syriac Bible in Central Asia / Mark Dickens -- Prester John's realm : new light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan / Alexei Savchenko -- Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Bikek, Kkirghizstan / Wassilios Klein -- Chaldæans and Assyrians : the church of the East in the Ottoman period / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg -- Commemorating church history in the Ottoman era : monumental inscriptions and art / Amir Harrak -- Magic and medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan / Erica Hunter -- World War I and the Assyrians / Martin Tamcke -- The Syriac Bible in the private Assyrian schools in Iraq / Robin Bet Shmuel -- The neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq / Geoffrey Khan -- Christianity in Iraq : modern history, theology, dialogue, and politics (until 2003) / Anthony O'Mahony. - Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days<(Brunei Gallery, 2004-2008)> |
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ISBN: | 1607241110 |