In the third volume of the trilogy, Seta B. Dadoyan focuses on
social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus
exhibited in her first two volumes. Her objective is to suggest
political readings of these themes and related texts by revealing
hitherto unstudied and novel interactions in the cities of Asia
Minor during the Mongol Period.
Dadoyan focuses on the Armenian condition and role in the
medieval Islamic world. She argues that if the entire region was
the habitat of most of the Armenians, their history too is part of
these locations and peoples. Dadoyan draws the outlines of a new
philosophy of Armenian history based on hitherto obscured patterns
of interaction.
The first three chapters of this volume are dedicated to the
images of Prophet Muhammad in Armenian literature. Dadoyan shows
that direct interactions and borrowings happened regularly from
Islamic sciences, reform projects, poetry, and arts. Dadoyan argues
that the cosmopolitan urban environments were radically different
from rural areas and close interactions took different and
unexpected patterns. In the last part of the volume, she presents
the first and only polemical-apologetic Armenian texts addressed to
Islam at the end of the fourteenth century. This book is essential
for all historians and Middle East scholars and is the latest
volume in Transaction's Armenian Studies series.
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