Syriac Christianity under Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Rule
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Alexander Legend
Alexander Poem
Antichrist
Arab Conquests
Arab Empire
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Byzantine Emperor
Byzantine-Persian relations
Byzantium
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Chosroes II
Christian Empire
Der Hunnen
Dispute Text
early Islamic polemics
East Syrian
East Syrian Church
East Syrian theology
East Syrian Tradition
Ende Der Zeit
Ephrem Syrus
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Eschatological Peoples
Exegetical Instruction
Gottes Hilfe
Holy City
Holy Men
medieval Christian-Muslim encounters
Nascent Islam
North Mesopotamia
religious identity formation
Synodicon Orientale
Syriac apocalyptic literature
Syriac responses to Islamic conquests
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138375710
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The articles in this volume are concerned with the literary responses of the Syriac communities in the Middle East to the drastic political changes of the 7th and 8th centuries, in particular the Persian occupation of the eastern provinces of Byzantium under Khusrau II, and the Islamic conquests and Umayyad rule. Several studies discuss the influential Syriac works concerning Alexander the Great written shortly after AD 628, which present the Byzantine emperor Heraclius as a new Alexander; attention is given to their polemical and propagandistic functions, and to their influence on early apocalyptic texts which respond to the Arab conquests and 'Abd al-Malik's religious propaganda at the end of the 7th century. Other studies deal with the beginnings of Syriac apologetic literature in response to early Islam, discussing texts of the first decades of the 8th century. The remaining articles focus on the religious controversies in the East Syrian community in connection with the increasing political influence of the Syrian Orthodox in Persia by the end of the 6th and the beginning of the seventh century, and the after-effects of Syriac anti-Islamic apologetics in a medieval encyclopedic text.
Dr G.J. Reinink is Associate Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
