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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theological Speculation and Theological Literacy
  • The Simple and the Learned
  • 'Confusion in the Land'
  • Contested Truths
  • Power in Heaven and on Earth
  • Competition, Schools, and Qenneshre
  • Education and Community Formation
  • Continuities: Personal and Institutional
  • A House with Many Mansions
  • A Religion with a Thousand Faces
  • Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority
  • Conversion and the Simple: the More Things to Change, the More They Stay the Same
  • Finding Their Way: the Mosque in the Shadow of the Church
  • Rubbing Shoulders: a Shared World
  • Dark Matter and the History of the Middle East.