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The dazzling array of languages and religions in the Middle East, from Late Antiquity to the present, has long made the region a source of fascination. But the specific features of pluralism in the Middle East have also made writing its history a difficult enterprise, as scholarly specialisation has often meant that this or that religious group becomes invisible. The challenges of the Middle East's particular pluralism, however, also represent an opportunity for creative reflection and innovation in historical research.
This volume takes as its starting-point the fact that, for much of the past 1,500 years, the population of the Middle East has been significantly Christian. It offers a series of case studies by leading scholars that offer different answers to the question of what histories of the region might look like if this demographic situation were taken seriously. Critiquing dominant narratives that conflate the history of the Middle East and the history of Islam, they show how integrating Christian actors, experiences and sources can enrich our understanding of the region.
Contents
Preface
1. Between Strangers and Friends: Studying the History of the Christian Communities of the Middle East
Jack Tannous
2. The Straight Paths of Christian Law: Reframing the Intellectual History of the Early Caliphate
Lev Weitz
3. A Christian Magnate in Islamic History: Isḥāq ibn Nuṣayr al-ʿIbādī, Arabic Stylist and Patron of the Abbasid Age
Luke Yarbrough and Iyas Nasser
4. The Queen of Akhlāṭ: Arab, Armenian, and Kurdish Coproduction of Stories about the Islamic Conquests
Alison Vacca
5. Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians in Intersection: Monastic Multiculturalism and Migration, Discourses of Race, and the Problem of Premodern "Africa" and the "Middle East"
Stephen J. Davis
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Middle Eastern Christians and the So-Called "Counter Crusade" in Edessa, 1144 CE
Thomas A. Carlson
7. Between Byzantium and the Mamluks: Orthodox Christians in Egypt and Syria during the 14th Century
Johannes Pahlitzsch
8. Why did the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Behave Like a Muslim Noble? The İstanbul Rum Patriği as Âyân
Tom Papademetriou
9. Christian Mountains in the Ottoman Empire
Molly Greene
10. New Literacy and Global Culture among the Christians of Syria (17th-18th Centuries)
Bernard Heyberger
11. Protestant Bibles, Middle Eastern Print Cultures, and the Making of World Christianity
Heather J. Sharkey
