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Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East: The Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East: The Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Samuel Noble, Brittany Pheiffer Noble, Constantine A. PanchenkoPublish date:2021-04-20Pages:216

Conflict or concord? Histories of Islam from its early seventh century beginnings in Arabia often portray its explosive growth into the wider Middle East as a story of struggle and conquest of the Christian people of Greater Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. Alternatively these histories suggest that as often as not the conquerors were welcomed by the conquered and their existing monotheistic faiths of Christianity and Judaism tolerated and even allowed to flourish. In this short but in depth survey of the almost nine centuries that passed from the beginning of the spread of Islam up to the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Syria and Egypt beginning in 1516, Constantin Panchenko offers a more complex portrayal that opens up fresh vistas of understanding of these centuries focusing on the impact that the coming of Islam had on the Orthodox Christian communities of the Middle East and in particular the interplay of their Greek cultural heritage and experience of increasing Arabization.