Redefining Christian identity : cultural interaction in the Middle East since the rise of Islam /

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Other Authors: Ginkel, J. J. van., Murre-van den Berg, H. L. 1964-, Lint, Theo Maarten van, 1957-

Format: Book

Language: English
Italian

Published: Leuven, Belgium ; Dudley, MA : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2005.

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta ; 134.
OLA ; 134.

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Call Number: DS1 .O7 v.134

Table of Contents:
  • History and identity in the Syrian churches / Michael G. Morony Christian perception of history - the Armenian perspective / Robert W. Thomson Ah! the Assyrian is the rod of my hand! : Syriac view of history after the advent of Islam / Amir Harrak History and community : Jacob of Edessa and the West Syrian identity / Jan J. van Ginkel East Syrian historiography in response to the rise of Islam : the case of John bar Penkaye's Ktaba de-res melle / Gerrit J. Reinink Answering the call of the minaret : Christian apologetics in the world of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith Explanations of the incarnation in early 'Abbasid Islam / David Thomas The strategy of the Baghdad philosophers : the Aristotelian tradition as a common motif in Christian and Islamic throught / John W. Watt The transmission of Islamic culture to the world of Syriac Christianity : Barhebreaues' translation of Avincenna's kitab al-isarat wa l-tanbihat : first soundings / Herman G. B. Teule The Credal poem Hawatov Xostovanim ("I confess in faith") of St. Nerses the Graceful / James R. Russell A case study for redefining Armenian-Christian cultural identity in the framework of near Eastern urbanism - 13th century : the Nasiri Futuwwa literature and the brotherhood poetry of Yovhannes and Konstandin Erzenkac'i - texts and contexts / Seta B. Dadoyan Cultural interaction in the Middle East as reflected in the anthropony of Armenian 12th-14th century colophons / Jos (J. J. S.) Weitenberg The use of Hijra dating in Syriac manuscripts : preliminary investigation / Sebastian Brock Versioni cristiane e giudaiche di una legenda islamica / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti The church of the east in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century : world church or ethnic community? / Heleen (H. L.) Murre-van den Berg Neo-Syriac literature in context : a reading of the Durekta on revealed truth by Josep of Telkepe (17th century) / Alessandro Mengozzi The gift of poetry : Khidr and John the Baptist as patron saints of Muslim and Armenian Asiqs - Asuls / Theo M. van Lint The politics of poetics : Islamic influence on Armenian verse / S. Peter Cowe.