Umayyad Christianity

By 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 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, mita-narrative, common to contemporary pro-Byzantine theology scholars.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463207573
• ISBN13: 9781463207571
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"