The mirage of the Saracen : Christians and nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in late antiquity /

The Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century CE. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Si...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ward, Walter D. (مؤلف)

التنسيق: كتاب

اللغة: English

منشور في: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015].

سلاسل: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 54.

الموضوعات:

Christianity > Egypt > Sinai.

Nomads > Egypt > Sinai > History.

Monasticism and religious orders > Egypt > Sinai.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Egypt > Sinai.