Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in Christian Middle East

by Akram Fouad Khater

Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632614
• ISBN13: 9780815632610
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"