The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

by Jack Tannous

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691179093
• ISBN13: 9780691179094
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"