Umayyad Christianity : John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in Early Islam

Parallelsachtitel: John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in early Islam
1. Verfasser: ʻAwaḍ, Najīb , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2018.
Umfang/Format: x, 472 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Islamic history and thought 12
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 born Sarjūn born 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.