Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World

by Michael Philip Penn

Book Overview

The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive descriptions extant of early Islam. Seldom translated and often omitted from modern historical reconstructions, this vast body of texts reveals a complicated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247221
• ISBN13: 9780812247220
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"