Seeing Islam as others saw it : a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam /
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Language: English
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Princeton, N. J. :
Darwin Press,
2001©1997.
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Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ;
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Call Number: DS38.1 .H69 2001
Table of Contents:
- •1. •The Historical Background •2. •The Nature of the Sources •3. •Greek Sources. •A Christian Apologist of 634. •John Moschus (d. 619 or 634). •Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. ca. 639). •Pope Martin I (649-55). •Maximus the Confessor (d. 662). •Anti-Jewish Polemicists of the Seventh Century. •The Miracles of S. Demetrius and S. George. •Anastasius of Sinai (d. ca. 700). •Patriarch Germanus (715-30) and Iconoclasm. •Cosmas of Jerusalem (wr. mid-eighth c.) and Hymnography. •Stephen the Sabaite (d. 794) •4. •West Syrian, Coptic and Armenian Sources. •Fragment on the Arab Conquests. •Thomas the Presbyter (wr. ca. 640). •Homily on the Child Saints of Babylon. •Gabriel of Qartmin (d. 648). •Sebeos, Bishop of the Bagratunis (wr. 660s). •Benjamin I, Patriarch of Alexandria (626-65). •A Maronite Chronicler. •George of Reshaina (d. ca. 680). •Daniel, Bishop of Edessa (665-84). •Athanasius of Balad, Patriarch of Antioch (683-87). •Isaac of Rakoti, Patriarch of Alexandria (689-92). •John, Bishop of Nikiu. •Theodotus of Amida (d. 698). •Jacob of Edessa (d. 708). •Zacharias, Bishop of Sakha (d. 720s). •Simeon of the Olives (d. 734) •5. •East Syrian Sources. •Ishoyahb III of Adiabene (d. 659). •A Chronicler of Khuzistan (wr. ca. 660s). •Rabban Hormizd (d. ca. 670). •George I (661-81) and the Synod of 676. •John bar Penkaye (wr. 687). •Hnanisho the Exegete (d. 700). •John of Daylam (d. 738). •Ishobokht, Metropolitan of Fars. •The Abbots of the Convent of Sabrisho. •Ishodnah of Basra (wr. ca. 850). •Thomas of Marga (wr. 860s) •6. •Latin Sources. •Fredegar, a Frankish Chronicler (wr. 650s). •Arculf (fl. 670s) and Early Islamic Jerusalem. •Willibald (fl. 720s) and Other Pilgrims. •Later Testimonia •7. •Jewish, Persian and Chinese Sources. •Jewish Sources. •Persian Sources. •Chinese Sources •8. •Apocalypses and Visions •9. •Martyrologies •10. •Chronicles and Histories •11. •Apologies and Disputations •12. •Non-Muslim Conceptions of Islam •13. •Using Non-Muslim Sources: an Empirical Approach •14. •Using Non-Muslim Sources: an Argumentative Approach •Excurses. •A. •The Canons and Resolutions of Jacob of Edessa. •B. •The Byzantine-Arab Chronicle of 741 and Its Eastern Source. •C. •An Outline of the Syriac Common Source. •D. •The Passion of David of Dwin. •E. •Georgian Historical Writing. •F. •Dated Arabic Writings, AH 1-135/622-752.