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ancient Iranian literature
Antiochene Theology
apostolic
Apostolic Church
Assyrian Church
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Chaldean Patriarch
Chosroes II
christian
Christian-Muslim relations
christianity
East Syriac
East Syriac Christianity
East Syriac Christians
East Syriac Church
East Syriac church development
East Syrians
ecclesiastical history research
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Genghis Khan
Great Khan
Great Khan Mongke
hormizd
Middle Eastern religious studies
Middle Persian
Mountain Nestorians
rabban
Rabban Hormizd
Sassanian empire history
Shapur II
Synodicon Orientale
syriac
Syriac Christianity
Syriac Literature
Syrian Orthodox
Syro Malabar Church
thomas
Thomas Christians
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West Syriac
wilhelm
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415297707
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East. It covers the periods of the Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, the 20th century, and informs about the Syriac, Iranian and Chinese literature of this unique and almost forgotten part of Christendom.
Wilhelm Baum is Associate Professor and teaches Medieval History at the Universities of Graz and Klagenfurt, Austria. He is author of of The Transformation of the Myth of Prester John (1999) and Ethiopia and Europe in the Middle Ages (2001).
Dietmar W. Winkler is Associate Professor and teaches Patristics and Ecumenical Theology at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg and the Cistercian School of Theology, Heilogenkreuz, Austria.
