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Christianity : a history in the Middle East / Habib Badr, chief editor ; Suad Abou el Rouss Slim, assistant editor ; Joseph Abou Nohra, assistant editor.

Contributor(s): Badr, Ḥabīb | Slim, Souad Abou el-Rousse, 1952- | Abū Nahrā, Jūzīf | Majlis Kanāʼis al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Beirut, Lebanon : Middle East Council of Churches, Studies & Research Program, 2005Description: 933 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9953003432 (alk. paper); 9789953003436 (alk. paper)Uniform titles: Masīḥīhay ʻabr tārīkhihā fī al-Mashriq. English. Subject(s): Christianity -- Arab countries -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Forward [sic] / Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh -- Preface / Afaf Deeb-Kandis -- Introduction to the Arabic edition / the Editorial Committee -- Introduction to the English edition / Habib Badr -- In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Judaic, Greek, Roman and Asian / Pierre Canivet -- In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Coptic civilization / Gawdat Gabra -- Christianity in the Middle East, in the 2nd and 3rd centuries / Pierre Maraval -- Autocracy and religion in Byzantium, in the 4th and 5th centuries / Alain Ducellier -- Theological thought in the School of Alexandria / Tadros Yacoub Malaty -- The theological schools of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis / Sebastian Brock -- The Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople / Joseph Buhagiar -- The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries / Metropolitan Bishoy -- The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : the Arab Christian tradition / Irfan Shahid -- The West Syriacs / Mār Sāwirus Isḥāk Sāka -- The Assyrians (East Syriacs) / Mār Bawai Soro -- The Maronites / Elias Khalifeh el-Hachem --
The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : churches of the Byzantine tradition / George Aṭiyyeh -- The Copts / Gawdat Gabra -- The Nubians / Gawdat Gabra -- The Ethiopians / Getatchew Haili -- The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage : the Armenian Church : cultural role and heritage / Manoushag Boyadjian -- In Egypt / Pope Shenouda III -- In Syria, Iraq and Palestine / Shafiq AbouZayd -- The deaconess in the Syriac Church / Clémence Hélou -- Arab Christianity before the rise of Islam / Irfan Shahid -- Christianity in the early Islamic decades (610-660) / Gérard Troupeau -- Christianity in the Umayyad era (661-750) / Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim -- The role of Christians in the Abbasid renaissance in Iraq and Syria (750-1050) / Samir Khalil Samir -- The Copts in the Faṭimīd era / Coptic Center for Social Studies -- Motives for the Crusades : a European perspective / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- The Crusades : a Middle Eastern perspective / Farah Firzli -- Christians in the non-Arab Islamic eras. Christians in the Ayyūbīd era / Farah Firzli -- Christians under the Mamlūks / Jorgen Nielsen --
Christianity in the first Ottoman era (1516-1650) / Asterios Argyriou -- The development of Catholicism in the Middle East (16th to 19th century) / Bernard Heyberger -- [Christians in the second Ottoman era (17th century)] / Vicenzo Poggi -- The Copts / Samir Morcos -- Catholic missions in the Middle East / Salim Daccache -- Lebanon, Syria and Turkey / Habib Badr -- Palestine and Jordan / Rafiq Farah -- Egypt and Sudan / Adib Naguib Salamah -- Iraq and the Gulf / Lewis R. Scudder, Jr. -- The renaissance of churches at the end of the Ottoman era (excluding Egypt) : the 18th and 19th centuries / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Revival of the Egyptian church since the middle of the 19th century / Metropolitan Bishoy -- Christians and the Arab Renaissance / Jerôme Chahine -- Origins of the principle of citizenship in the tradition of the Copts and the history of their country / William Suleiman Qalada -- Christians in the Arab East : an interpretation of contemporary history / Tarek Mitri -- History / Jean Corbon -- A personal experience / Gabriel Habib -- Future horizons / Riad Jarjour -- Ecumenism on the threshold of the third millenium / Catholicos Aram I.

Middle East Council of Churches studies & research program

"This book was prepared in cooperation between the Middle East Council of Churches and many churches of the region and some local, regional and international church-related and cultural organizations."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Forward [sic] / Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh -- Preface / Afaf Deeb-Kandis -- Introduction to the Arabic edition / the Editorial Committee -- Introduction to the English edition / Habib Badr -- In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Judaic, Greek, Roman and Asian / Pierre Canivet -- In the context of the Mediterranean civilizations : Coptic civilization / Gawdat Gabra -- Christianity in the Middle East, in the 2nd and 3rd centuries / Pierre Maraval -- Autocracy and religion in Byzantium, in the 4th and 5th centuries / Alain Ducellier -- Theological thought in the School of Alexandria / Tadros Yacoub Malaty -- The theological schools of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis / Sebastian Brock -- The Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople / Joseph Buhagiar -- The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries / Metropolitan Bishoy -- The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : the Arab Christian tradition / Irfan Shahid -- The West Syriacs / Mār Sāwirus Isḥāk Sāka -- The Assyrians (East Syriacs) / Mār Bawai Soro -- The Maronites / Elias Khalifeh el-Hachem --

The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage (5th to 8th century) : churches of the Byzantine tradition / George Aṭiyyeh -- The Copts / Gawdat Gabra -- The Nubians / Gawdat Gabra -- The Ethiopians / Getatchew Haili -- The rise of Eastern churches and their heritage : the Armenian Church : cultural role and heritage / Manoushag Boyadjian -- In Egypt / Pope Shenouda III -- In Syria, Iraq and Palestine / Shafiq AbouZayd -- The deaconess in the Syriac Church / Clémence Hélou -- Arab Christianity before the rise of Islam / Irfan Shahid -- Christianity in the early Islamic decades (610-660) / Gérard Troupeau -- Christianity in the Umayyad era (661-750) / Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim -- The role of Christians in the Abbasid renaissance in Iraq and Syria (750-1050) / Samir Khalil Samir -- The Copts in the Faṭimīd era / Coptic Center for Social Studies -- Motives for the Crusades : a European perspective / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- The Crusades : a Middle Eastern perspective / Farah Firzli -- Christians in the non-Arab Islamic eras. Christians in the Ayyūbīd era / Farah Firzli -- Christians under the Mamlūks / Jorgen Nielsen --

Christianity in the first Ottoman era (1516-1650) / Asterios Argyriou -- The development of Catholicism in the Middle East (16th to 19th century) / Bernard Heyberger -- [Christians in the second Ottoman era (17th century)] / Vicenzo Poggi -- The Copts / Samir Morcos -- Catholic missions in the Middle East / Salim Daccache -- Lebanon, Syria and Turkey / Habib Badr -- Palestine and Jordan / Rafiq Farah -- Egypt and Sudan / Adib Naguib Salamah -- Iraq and the Gulf / Lewis R. Scudder, Jr. -- The renaissance of churches at the end of the Ottoman era (excluding Egypt) : the 18th and 19th centuries / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Revival of the Egyptian church since the middle of the 19th century / Metropolitan Bishoy -- Christians and the Arab Renaissance / Jerôme Chahine -- Origins of the principle of citizenship in the tradition of the Copts and the history of their country / William Suleiman Qalada -- Christians in the Arab East : an interpretation of contemporary history / Tarek Mitri -- History / Jean Corbon -- A personal experience / Gabriel Habib -- Future horizons / Riad Jarjour -- Ecumenism on the threshold of the third millenium / Catholicos Aram I.

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