Umayyad Christianity : : John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in Early Islam / / Najib George Awad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Awad, Najib George,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Argitaratze-urtea: 2018
• Hizkuntza: English
• Deskribapen fisikoa: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table Of Contents --; Preface --; Chapter One. Introducing the case --; Chapter Two. On contextuality in historical-theological reasoning: a brief methodological exposition --; Chapter Three. Who was John of Damascus? Or, centralizing Sitz im Leben --; Chapter Four. Yannah Manṣūr Ad-Dimashqī. Sarjūn B. Manṣūr Ar-Rūmī, The Inhabitant Of Damascus --; Chapter Five. John of Damascus's Greek writings in the context of Umayyad Syria-Palestine --; Chapter Six. Umayyad Christianity: forming identity in a changing Sitz im Leben --; Bibliography --; Index
• Gaia: A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during 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.
• Formatua: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463240219; 9783110606751
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463240219
• Sartu: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Najib George Awad.

A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during 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 stimul...