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Christian Martyrs under Islam - Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World (Hardcover)
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Christian Martyrs under Islam - Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World (Hardcover)
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A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations
during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the
medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a
majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this
process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians
across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of
the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected
this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy
and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of
Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown
group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials
between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as
diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an
alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity,
high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who
viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages
between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never
experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and
indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the
greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still,
episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam
within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a
key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire.
Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against
Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid
the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in
the centuries to come.
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