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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | John, of Damascus Saint.; Umayyad dynasty; John, of Damascus Saint.; Umayyad dynasty.; Johannes, Damascenus |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Najīb ʻAwaḍ |
ISBN: | 9781463207571 1463207573 |
OCLC Number: | 1066050177 |
Description: | x, 472 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introducing the case -- On contextuality in historical-theological reasoning: a brief methodological exposition -- Who was John of Damascus? Or, centralizing Sitz im Leben -- Yannah Manṣūr ad-Dimashqī b. Sarjūn b. Manṣūr ar-Rūmī, the inhabitant of Damascus -- John of Damascus's Greek writings in the context of Umayyad Syria-Palestine -- Umayyad Christianity: forming identity in a changing Sitz im Leben. |
Series Title: | Islamic history and thought, 12. |
Other Titles: | John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in early Islam |
Responsibility: | Najib George Awad. |
Abstract:
A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during Umayyad Caliphate. It approaches this subject by using John of Damascus and his writings on Islam as a case-study.
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