When Christians first met Muslims : a sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam /

"The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, Syr...

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Main Author: Penn, Michael Philip (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.

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Call Number: BP160 .P46 2015

Table of Contents:
  • •Introduction • Account ad 637 • Chronicle ad 640 • Letters / Ishoʻyahb III • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem • Khuzistan chronicle • Maronite chronicle • Syriac life of Maximus the Confessor • Canons / George I • Colophon of British Library additional 14,666 • Letter / Athanasius of Balad • Book of main points / John bar Penkāyē • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius • Edessene apocalypse • Exegesis of the Pericopes of the Gospel / Ḥnanishoʻ I • Life of Theoduṭē • Colophon of British Library additional 14,448 • Apocalypse of John the Little • Chronicle ad 705 • Letters / Jacob of Edessa • Chronicle / Jacob of Edessa • Scholia / Jacob of Edessa • Against the Armenians / Jacob of Edessa • Kāmed inscriptions • Chronicle of disasters • Chronicle ad 724 • Disputation of John and the emir • Exegetical homilies / Mār Abbā II • Disputation of Bēt Ḥalē.