The Making Of The Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, And Simple Believers by Jack Tannous

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?

Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Year:	2018
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780691179094
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy.

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SKU: 1602503
Location: History