Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World by Michael Philip Penn

Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Michael Philip Penn

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century on...

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