When Christians First Met Muslims
eBook - PDF

When Christians First Met Muslims

A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

When Christians First Met Muslims

A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam

About this book

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam, describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic.

Through its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical material, When Christians First Met Muslims allows scholars, students, and the general public to explore the earliest interactions between what eventually became the world's two largest religions, shedding new light on Islamic history and Christian-Muslim relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue: The Year 630
  5. Introduction
  6. Account ad 637
  7. Chronicle ad 640
  8. Letters, Isho'yahb III
  9. Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem
  10. Khuzistan Chronicle
  11. Maronite Chronicle
  12. Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor
  13. Canons, George I
  14. Colophon of British Library Additional 14,666
  15. Letter, Athanasius of Balad
  16. Book of Main Points, John bar Penkāyē
  17. Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
  18. Edessene Apocalypse
  19. Exegesis of the Pericopes of the Gospel, Ḥnanisho' I
  20. Life of Theoduṭē
  21. Colophon of British Library Additional 14,448
  22. Apocalypse of John the Little
  23. Chronicle ad 705
  24. Letters, Jacob of Edessa
  25. Chronicle, Jacob of Edessa
  26. Scholia, Jacob of Edessa
  27. Against the Armenians, Jacob of Edessa
  28. Kāmed Inscriptions
  29. Chronicle of Disasters
  30. Chronicle ad 724
  31. Disputation of John and the Emir
  32. Exegetical Homilies, Mār Abbā II
  33. Disputation of Bēt Ḥalē
  34. Bibliography
  35. Index