The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Tannous, Jack
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Tannous, Jack

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians...
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Author: Jack Tannous
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The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Tannous, Jack

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

$840.35
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Tannous, Jack

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

$840.35
Author: Jack Tannous
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called "the simple" in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history.

What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, Tannous provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East.

This provocative book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.

Author: Jack Tannous
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 664
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9780691179094

About the Author
Jack Tannous is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.
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