Christian martyrs and the making of an Islamic society in the post-conquest period
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Christian Casey Sahner
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Brown, Peter R.; Cook, Michael A.
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Princeton University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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413
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Haldon, John F.; Hoyland, Robert G.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-90991-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
Body granting the degree
Princeton University
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religious history; Middle Eastern Studies; Medieval history
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Abbasids;Christianity;Conversion;Islam;Martyrdom;Umayyads