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Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world

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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 onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive descriptions extant of early Islam. Seldom translated and often omitted from modern historical reconstructions, this vast body of texts reveals a complicated and evolving range of religious and cultural exchanges that took place from the seventh to the ninth century...,

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190701005

297.197 PEN e

Z. HANDIMAN

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297.197 PEN e

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Philadelphia : University of Pennylvania Press., 2015

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294p; 23 cm.

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English

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978-08122-2402-3

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297.197

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ISLAM - RELATION TO JUDAISM

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