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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic history and thought ; 12.Publisher: Piscataway, NJ, USA : Gorgias Press, 2018Description: x, 472 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781463207571
  • 1463207573
Other title:
  • John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in early Islam
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.27 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1720.J59 A93 2018
Contents:
Introducing the case -- On contextuality in historical-theological reasoning: a brief methodological exposition -- Who was John of Damascus? Or, centralizing Sitz im Leben -- Yannah Manṣūr ad-Dimashqī b. Sarjūn b. Manṣūr ar-Rūmī, the inhabitant of Damascus -- John of Damascus's Greek writings in the context of Umayyad Syria-Palestine -- Umayyad Christianity: forming identity in a changing Sitz im Leben.
Summary: "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." -- Publisher's description.
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Book: Standard Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre England Collection BR1720.J59 A93 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20-429

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-464) and index.

Introducing the case -- On contextuality in historical-theological reasoning: a brief methodological exposition -- Who was John of Damascus? Or, centralizing Sitz im Leben -- Yannah Manṣūr ad-Dimashqī b. Sarjūn b. Manṣūr ar-Rūmī, the inhabitant of Damascus -- John of Damascus's Greek writings in the context of Umayyad Syria-Palestine -- Umayyad Christianity: forming identity in a changing Sitz im Leben.

"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." -- Publisher's description.

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