The Imam of the Christians (eBook)

The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850

Philip Wood (Autor)

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2021
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21995-0 (ISBN)

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How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphateThe Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira (modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and Muslims' interactions with other religious communities.Wood shows how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the courts of ?Abd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma'mun, he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by popular consent.A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern Christian life during a critical period in the development of Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: abbasid caliphate • Abbasid revolution • Abbasids • Abiram • Abu Yusuf • Ahmad ibn Hanbal • Al-Amin • Al-Raqqah • arab conquests • arabs • aristocracy • Athanasius Sandalaya • Bar Hebraeus • Bishops • Caliphate • Canon Law • Censure • Central Asia • Chalcedonian Christianity • Christianity • Christianity in Muslim societies • Christianity under Muslim rule • christian muslim relations • Christology • Church of the East • Clergy • consecration • Criticism • Ctesiphon • CYRIACUS • Cyrrhus • dhimma • Dhimmi • Diocese • Dissenter • Doctrine • Dyophysite • Edessa • Egyptian Christianity • Egyptian Christians • Ethnonym • Exclusion • Excommunication • Exilarch • Fitna • Fourth Fitna • God • Hagiography • Harran • Harun al-Rashid • Heresy • Iraq • Islam • israelites • jacobites • Jacob of Edessa • Jews • Jizya • john of ephesus • John of Tella • Kafir • Kakushta • Laity • Manichaeism • maronites • Marwanids • Marwan II • Medieval History • Melkite • Miaphysites • Miaphysitism • Michael the Syrian • Monasteries • Monastery • Mosul • Muslim • Near East • Nestorianism • Old Testament • Ordination • Orthodoxy • Patriarch • patriarchate • Patriarch of Alexandria • Patriarch of Antioch • Patriarchs (Bible) • Persecution • Persian people • post Roman aristocrats • Princeton University Press • Quran • Religion • Religious Community • Religious Conversion • religious text • Roman Empire • Samosata • sasanian empire • severus of antioch • Shuubiya • Simony • Superiority (short story) • Suryaye • synod • Syriac historiography • Syriac Language • Syriac Literature • Syriac Orthodox Church • Takrit • Tax • Tax Collector • the monastery • Theodoret • Theology • The Other Hand • Tikrit • Tithe • Tur Abdin • Umayyad Caliphate • Wealth • Writing • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21995-8 / 0691219958
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21995-0 / 9780691219950