
When Christians First Met Muslims
A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
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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
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Year 630
- Introduction
- Account ad 637
- Chronicle ad 640
- Letters, Isho'yahb III
- Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem
- Khuzistan Chronicle
- Maronite Chronicle
- Syriac Life of Maximus the Confessor
- Canons, George I
- Colophon of British Library Additional 14,666
- Letter, Athanasius of Balad
- Book of Main Points, John bar Penkāyē
- Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
- Edessene Apocalypse
- Exegesis of the Pericopes of the Gospel, Ḥnanisho' I
- Life of Theoduṭē
- Colophon of British Library Additional 14,448
- Apocalypse of John the Little
- Chronicle ad 705
- Letters, Jacob of Edessa
- Chronicle, Jacob of Edessa
- Scholia, Jacob of Edessa
- Against the Armenians, Jacob of Edessa
- Kāmed Inscriptions
- Chronicle of Disasters
- Chronicle ad 724
- Disputation of John and the Emir
- Exegetical Homilies, Mār Abbā II
- Disputation of Bēt Ḥalē
- Bibliography
- Index