عنوان

Christian martyrs and the making of an Islamic society in the post-conquest period

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انگلیسی

Christian martyrs and the making of an Islamic society in the post-conquest period

[Thesis]

Christian Casey Sahner

Brown, Peter R.; Cook, Michael A.

Princeton University

2015

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Committee members: Haldon, John F.; Hoyland, Robert G.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-90991-3

Ph.D.

History

Princeton University

2015

This dissertation examines the role of state-sanctioned violence against Christians during the Umayyad and early 'Abbasid periods. It explores a neglected group of Christian saints (often called "neomartyrs") who died between the seventh and ninth centuries AD. They hailed from practically every corner of the greater Middle East where Christian majorities lived alongside Muslim minorities, including Spain, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and the Caucasus. As such, their lives were recorded in a range of languages, including Arabic, Greek, Latin, Armenian, Georgian, and Syriac. The dissertation pairs these texts with Muslim sources, including legal and historical literature, to provide a three-dimensional and balanced portrait of Islamization, Arabization, and official violence in the post-conquest period.

Religious history; Middle Eastern Studies; Medieval history

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Abbasids;Christianity;Conversion;Islam;Martyrdom;Umayyads

Ehrmantraut, Adam

Brown, Peter R.; Cook, Michael A.

History

Princeton University

1709273978; 3713989

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