Debating the Faith in Early Islamic Egypt
This article explores a series of doctrinal disputations held in early Islamic Egypt, and known through the Hodegos of Anastasius of Sinai (fl. c. 670-c. 700). Using the text's prosopographical and contextual cues, it argues that these disputations occurred in the 680s, in the aftermath of Cons...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2019, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 691-707 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Anastasios, Sinaites, Heiliger 610-701, Viae dux
/ Anastasios, Sinaites, Heiliger 610-701
/ Konzil von Konstantinopel 3. (680-681 : Konstantinopel)
/ Egypt
/ Christology
/ Religious disputation
/ History 680-690
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | This article explores a series of doctrinal disputations held in early Islamic Egypt, and known through the Hodegos of Anastasius of Sinai (fl. c. 670-c. 700). Using the text's prosopographical and contextual cues, it argues that these disputations occurred in the 680s, in the aftermath of Constantinople's Sixth Ecumenical Council (680/1), the decisions of which had thrown the Chalcedonian Christians of the caliphate into conflict and schism. In 686, it is argued, Anastasius had confronted the famed Edessene and Severan Athanasius bar Gūmoye before the Marwānid prince Abd al-'Azīz at Fusṭāṭ, and there been defeated. That defeat is indicative of the new-found position of the Egyptian Severan Church, which now flourished under Marwānid patronage. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919000617 |