When Christians first met Muslims a sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam

"The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, Syr...

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Main Author: Penn, Michael Philip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Account ad 637
  • Chronicle ad 640
  • Letters / Ishoʻyahb III
  • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem
  • Khuzistan chronicle
  • Maronite chronicle
  • Syriac life of Maximus the Confessor
  • Canons / George I
  • Colophon of British Library additional 14,666
  • Letter / Athanasius of Balad
  • Book of main points / John bar Penkāyē
  • Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
  • Edessene apocalypse
  • Exegesis of the Pericopes of the Gospel / Ḥnanishoʻ I
  • Life of Theoduṭē
  • Colophon of British Library additional 14,448
  • Apocalypse of John the Little
  • Chronicle ad 705
  • Letters / Jacob of Edessa
  • Chronicle / Jacob of Edessa
  • Scholia / Jacob of Edessa
  • Against the Armenians / Jacob of Edessa
  • Kāmed inscriptions
  • Chronicle of disasters
  • Chronicle ad 724
  • Disputation of John and the emir
  • Exegetical homilies / Mār Abbā II
  • Disputation of Bēt Ḥalē