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The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700 - An Anthology of Sources (Paperback)
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The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700 - An Anthology of Sources (Paperback)
Series: NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
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Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was
preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the
first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian
message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is
at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from
the 8th century. Pre-modern Arab Christian literature embraces such
diverse genres as Arabic translations of the Bible and the Church
Fathers, biblical commentaries, lives of the saints, theological
and polemical treatises, devotional poetry, philosophy, medicine,
and history. Yet in the Western historiography of Christianity, the
Arab Christian Middle East is treated only peripherally, if at all.
The first of its kind, this anthology makes accessible in English
representative selections from major Arab Christian works written
between the eighth and eigtheenth centuries. The translations are
idiomatic while preserving the character of the original. The
popular assumption is that in the wake of the Islamic conquests,
Christianity abandoned the Middle East to flourish elsewhere,
leaving its original heartland devoid of an indigenous Christian
presence. Until now, several of these important texts have remained
unpublished or unavailable in English. Translated by leading
scholars, these texts represent the major genres of Orthodox
literature in Arabic. Noble and Treiger provide an introduction
that helps form a comprehensive history of Christians within the
Muslim world. The collection marks an important contribution to the
history of medieval Christianity and the history of the medieval
Near East.
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