Envisioning Islam : Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world / Michael Philip Penn.

By: Penn, Michael Philip [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: DivinationsPublication details: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press c.2015 Description: 294 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780812247220Subject(s): Syriac Christians -- History -- To 1500 | Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- History -- To 1500 | Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 261.27
Contents:
When good things happened to other people : Syriac memories of the Islamic conquests -- A different type of difference-making : Syriac narratives of religious identity -- Using Muslims to think with : narratives of Islamic rulers -- Blurring boundaries : the continuum between early Christianity and early Islam -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index.

When good things happened to other people : Syriac memories of the Islamic conquests -- A different type of difference-making : Syriac narratives of religious identity -- Using Muslims to think with : narratives of Islamic rulers -- Blurring boundaries : the continuum between early Christianity and early Islam -- Conclusion.

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