Umayyad Christianity, Hardback Book

Umayyad Christianity Hardback

Part of the Islamic History and Thought series

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A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during the Umayyad Caliphate.

It approaches this subject by using John of Damascus and his writings on Islam as a case-study.

This provides an exhaustive study of the available historical data in order to stimulate some further thought on John of Damascus’s theology and legacy from a contextual and intercultural methodology.

Such an examination has not yet been pursued in the scholarship of Byzantine Christianity during that era.

Proceeding from a centralizing ‘context’, the monograph revisits John of Damascus’s legacy (and the Umayyad Christians’ identity-formation of that era) from the perspective of his historical, Islamic-Arabic context, and not from any assumed, metanarrative, common to contemporary pro-Byzantine theology scholars.

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