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

665 Pages·2018·7.46 MB·English

by  Jack Tannous

The Making of the Medieval Middle East
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The Making of the
Medieval Middle East
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RELIGION, SOCIETY, AND SIMPLE BELIEVERS
Jack Tannous
P r i n c e to n U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s
Princeton & Oxford
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Copyright © 2018 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press,
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ISBN 978- 0- 691- 17909- 4
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Editorial: Fred Appel and Thalia Leaf
Production Editorial: Debbie Tegarden
Text Design: Leslie Flis
Jacket Design: Leslie Flis
Jacket art: Twelfth-century illumination from a manuscript of The Heavenly
Ladder by St. John Klimakos (Sinai Greek 418). By permission of
Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Production: Jacquie Poirier
Publicity: Kathryn Stevens
Copyeditor: Eva Jaunzems
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In memory of Jamileh Tannous
ايحْ َيسَ فتَ ام نْ إو بي نَ مَآ نْ مَ
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ܠܝܟܗ ܟܢܝܥ ܢܐ .ܐܢܝܥ ܗܝܬܝܐ .ܐܼ ܪܓܦܕ ܐܓܪܫ
ܘܗ̱ ܪܝܗܢ ܟܪܓܦ ܗܠܟ ܦܐ .ܐܼ ܛܝܫܦ ܐܘܗܬ
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Contents
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Maps xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Simple Belief
CHAPTER 1: Theological Speculation and Theological Literacy 11
CHAPTER 2: The Simple and the Learned 46
Part II: Consequences of Chalcedon
CHAPTER 3: ‘Confusion in the Land’ 85
CHAPTER 4: Contested Truths 111
CHAPTER 5: Power in Heaven and on Earth 134
CHAPTER 6: Competition, Schools, and Qenneshre 160
CHAPTER 7: Education and Community Formation 181
InterlUde: The Question of Continuity
CHAPTER 8: Continuities—Personal and Institutional 201
Part III: Christians and Muslims
CHAPTER 9: A House with Many Mansions 225
CHAPTER 10: A Religion with a Thousand Faces 260
CHAPTER 11: Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority 310
CHAPTER 12: Conversion and the Simple—The More Things Change,
the More They Stay the Same 353
CHAPTER 13: Finding Their Way—The Mosque in the Shadow
of the Church 400
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