The encounter of Eastern Christianity with early Islam / edited by Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark Swanson, and David Thomas.

• Superior document: The history of Christian-Muslim relations, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Grypeou, Emmanouela.; Swanson, Mark N.; Thomas, David 1948-
• Дата издания: 2006
• Редактирование: 1st ed.
• Язык: English
• Серии: History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 5.
• Объем: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Примечания: Papers from a workshop held in June 2003 in Erfurt, Germany.

The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theol...