Violence and belief in late antiquity : militant devotion in Christianity and Islam /

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Main Author: Sizgorich, Thomas (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Philadelphia : [University of Pennsylvania Press], c2009.

Series: Divinations.

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Call Number: BT736.15 .S57 2009

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245 1 0 |a Violence and belief in late antiquity :  |b militant devotion in Christianity and Islam /  |c Thomas Sizgorich. 
264 1 |a Philadelphia :  |b [University of Pennsylvania Press],  |c c2009. 
300 |a viii, 398 pages ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Divinations. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-382) and index. 
505 0 |a •Introduction •Chapter 1. "The Devil Spoke from Scripture": Boundary Maintenance and Communal Integrity in Late Antiquity •Chapter 2. "The Living Voice of Kindred Blood": Narrative, Identity, and the Primordial Past •Chapter 3. "What Has the Pious in Common with the Impious?" Ambrose, Libanius, and the Problem of Late Antique Religious Violence •Chapter 4. "Are You Christians?" Violence, Ascetics, and Knowing One's Own •Chapter 5. "Horsemen by Day and Monks by Night": Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity •Chapter 6. "The Sword Scrapes Away Transgressions": Ascetic Praxis and Communal Boundaries in Late Antique Islam •Chapter 7. "Do You Not Fear God?" The Khawarij in Early Islamic Society •Chapter 8. "This Is a Very Filthy Question, and No One Should Discuss It": The Messy World of Ibn Hanbal •Conclusion •List of Abbreviations •Notes •Select Bibliography •Index •Acknowledgments 
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650 0 |a Violence  |x Religious aspects  |x Christianity. 
650 0 |a Violence  |x Religious aspects  |x Islam. 
650 0 |a Martyrdom  |x Christianity.  |9 6721 
650 0 |a Identity (Psychology)  |x Religious aspects  |x Christianity. 
650 0 |a Identity (Psychology)  |x Religious aspects  |x Islam. 
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