The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers Tapa dura - 2018

Princeton University Press, 2018-12-04. Hardcover. Very Good. This is a new book that has some minor damage, which is usually a tear, a scratch, dents or stain on the edge, pages are clean, no missing pages.

Hardback. New.

Princeton University Press. New. New Princeton University Press, 2018-12-04 New A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called "the simple" in late antique and medieval sources Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's historyWhat did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam… Leer más

Other. New.

Princeton University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.