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Redefining Christian identity : cultural interaction in the Middle East since the rise of Islam / edited by J.J. van Ginkel, H.L. Murre-van den Berg, T.M. van Lint.

Contributor(s): Ginkel, J. J. van (Jan J.) | Murre-van den Berg, H. L. (Hendrika Lena), 1964- | Lint, Theo Maarten van, 1957-
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta: Publisher: Leuven, Belgium ; Dudley, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiv, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9042914181 (alk. paper); 9789042914186 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Middle East -- Church history -- Congresses | Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Congresses | Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.6/756 LOC classification: BR1070 | .R43 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
History and identity in the Syrian churches / Michael G. Morony -- Christian perception of history - the Armenian perspective / Robert W. Thomson -- Ah! the Assyrian is the rod of my hand! : Syriac view of history after the advent of Islam / Amir Harrak -- History and community. Jacob of Edessa and the west Syrian identity / Jan J. Van Ginkel -- East Syrian historiography in responce to the rise of Islam : the case of John bar Penkaye's Ktaba d-res melle / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Answering the call of the minaret : Christian apologetics in the world of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith -- Explanations of the incarnation in early 'Abbasid Islam / David Thomas -- The strategy of the Baghdad philosophers. the Aristotelian tradition as a common motif in Christian and Islamic [thought] / John W. Watt -- The transmission of Islamic culture to the world of Syriac Christianity : Barhebreaues' translation of Avincenna's kitab al-isarat wa l-tanbihat. first soundings / Herman G. B. Teule -- The Credal poem Hawatov Xostovaniim ("I Confess in Faith") of St. Nerses the graceful / James R. Russell --
A case study for redefining Armenian-Christian cultural identity in the framework of near eastern urbanism - 13th century : the Nasiri Futuwwa literature and the brotherhood poetry of Yovhannes and Konstandin Erzenkac'i - texts and contexts / Seta B. Dadoyan -- Cultural interaction in the Middle East as reflected in the anthropony of Armenian 12th - 14th century colophons / Jos (J.J.S.) Weitenberg -- the use of Hijra dating in Syriac manuscripts. a preliminary investigation / Sebastian Brock -- Versioni cristiane e giudaiche di una legenda islamica / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti -- The church of the east in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century : world church or ethnic community? / Heleen (H.L.) Murre-Van den Berg -- Neo-Syriac literature in context : a reading of the Durekta on revealed truth by Josep of Telkepe (17th century) / Alessandro Mengozzi -- The gift of poetry : Khidr and John the Baptist as patron saints of Muslim and Armenian Asiqs - Asuls / Theo M. Van Lint -- The politics of poetics : Islamic influence on Armenian verse / S. Peter Cowe.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BR1070 .R43 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903151773

Chiefly in English; one contribution in Italian.

Proceedings of a symposium held Apr. 7-10, 1999 at Groningen University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History and identity in the Syrian churches / Michael G. Morony -- Christian perception of history - the Armenian perspective / Robert W. Thomson -- Ah! the Assyrian is the rod of my hand! : Syriac view of history after the advent of Islam / Amir Harrak -- History and community. Jacob of Edessa and the west Syrian identity / Jan J. Van Ginkel -- East Syrian historiography in responce to the rise of Islam : the case of John bar Penkaye's Ktaba d-res melle / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Answering the call of the minaret : Christian apologetics in the world of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith -- Explanations of the incarnation in early 'Abbasid Islam / David Thomas -- The strategy of the Baghdad philosophers. the Aristotelian tradition as a common motif in Christian and Islamic [thought] / John W. Watt -- The transmission of Islamic culture to the world of Syriac Christianity : Barhebreaues' translation of Avincenna's kitab al-isarat wa l-tanbihat. first soundings / Herman G. B. Teule -- The Credal poem Hawatov Xostovaniim ("I Confess in Faith") of St. Nerses the graceful / James R. Russell --

A case study for redefining Armenian-Christian cultural identity in the framework of near eastern urbanism - 13th century : the Nasiri Futuwwa literature and the brotherhood poetry of Yovhannes and Konstandin Erzenkac'i - texts and contexts / Seta B. Dadoyan -- Cultural interaction in the Middle East as reflected in the anthropony of Armenian 12th - 14th century colophons / Jos (J.J.S.) Weitenberg -- the use of Hijra dating in Syriac manuscripts. a preliminary investigation / Sebastian Brock -- Versioni cristiane e giudaiche di una legenda islamica / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti -- The church of the east in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century : world church or ethnic community? / Heleen (H.L.) Murre-Van den Berg -- Neo-Syriac literature in context : a reading of the Durekta on revealed truth by Josep of Telkepe (17th century) / Alessandro Mengozzi -- The gift of poetry : Khidr and John the Baptist as patron saints of Muslim and Armenian Asiqs - Asuls / Theo M. Van Lint -- The politics of poetics : Islamic influence on Armenian verse / S. Peter Cowe.

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