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Umayyad Christianity (Hardback)

John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in Early Islam

P&S History > Theology & Religion

Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9781463207571
Published: 6th December 2018
Casemate UK Academic

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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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