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Set within the context of the national political narrative of Lebanon, this volume offers a portrait of Sakr and the times in which he lived before his exile to Israel in May 2000.
Maronites --- Syriac Christians --- Sakr, Etienne. --- Abu-Arz --- Lebanon --- History
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Syriac Christians. --- Theology, Doctrinal --- History --- Jacob, --- Ephraem, --- Catholic Church --- Maronite Rite --- Doctrines.
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In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints to try and explore the relationship as thoroughly as possible. Taking the Georgian belief that ‘Thirteen Syrian Fathers’ introduced monasticism to the country in the sixth century as a starting point, this volume explores the evidence for trade, cultural and religious relations between Syria and the Kingdom of Kartli (what is now eastern Georgia) between the fourth and seventh centuries CE. It considers whether there is any evidence to support the medieval texts and tries to place this posited relationship within a wider regional context.
Christianity. --- Church architecture --- Church architecture. --- Church history. --- Syriac Christians --- Syriac Christians. --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- History. --- Georgia (Republic). --- Syria. --- Christianity --- History --- Georgia (Republic) --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Syriac Christians - Georgia (Republic) --- Christianity - Georgia (Republic) - History --- Christianity - Syria - History --- Church architecture - Syria --- Church architecture - Georgia (Republic) --- Archaeology by period / region
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The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotations and source notes by the translators help clarify elements that may be unfamiliar to some readers. This collection bears witness to the profound contributions women made to early Chistianity: their various roles, their leadership inside and outside the church structure, and their power to influence others. A new preface discusses recent developments in the field and updates the bibliography.
Christian saints --- Women in Christianity --- Syriac Christians --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Christianity --- Saints --- Canonization --- Biography --- Early works to 1800. --- History --- Early works to 1800
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The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam, describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic.Through its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical material, When Christians Fir
Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Syriac Christians --- 297.116*1 --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- History --- Relations --- Relatie Islam tot Christendom --- Christianity. --- Interfaith relations. --- Islam. --- Syriac Christians. --- To 1500. --- 297.116*1 Relatie Islam tot Christendom --- HISTORY / Ancient / General
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Maaloula, the last place in the world where the language of Christ, Aramaic, is spoken ... Nestled in the hollow of the Qalamoun mountains, the small village has never ceased to fascinate all travelers since the end of the 18th century. Indeed since that time, it has remained a sort of Orientalist "commonplace" where European scholars and missionaries thronged until the first half of the 20th century. The greatest orientalists like Theodor Nöldeke, adventurers such as Richard Burton and even Alexandre Dumas knew about the existence of Maaloula and devoted a few pages to him. Today, Maaloula has become a major tourist center which attracts no less than 150,000 annual visitors, Europeans of course but especially Iranians who come to seek in addition to the picturesque places, the illusions of a return to the sources. By crossing archives and speeches on Maaloula for almost two centuries, Frédéric Pichon brings to light, along with the Christian memory of a rural Syrian community, the multiple facets of the identity of the last "Aramaeans" in Syria.
Syriac christians --- Syriac Christians --- Group identity --- Christians --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Religious adherents --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Syrian Christians --- History --- History. --- Maʻlūlā (Syria) --- Historiography. --- Maʻlūlah (Syria) --- arabisme --- islam --- Mandat français --- identité --- folklorisation --- orientalisme --- sanctuaires partagés --- christianisme --- néoaraméen occidental --- anthropologie religieuse
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Interpersonal relations --- Chaldean Catholics --- Chaldean-rite Catholics --- Catholics --- Syriac Christians --- 203 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie) --- Philosophical anthropology --- Cognitive psychology --- Relations humaines --- Entraide --- Chaldéens catholiques --- Cas, Études de --- Michigan (États-Unis) --- Detroit (Mich.)
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It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.
Syriac Christians --- Church history --- Chrétiens syriaques --- Eglise --- History --- Histoire --- Constantine --- Iraq --- Iran --- Irak --- 27 <394> --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Syrië --- Constantijn, --- Constantin, --- Constantin --- Constantine, --- Constantino --- Constantinus Flavius Valerius Aurelius, --- Constantinus --- Constantinus, --- Costantino --- Costantino, --- Flaviĭ Valeriĭ Avreliĭ Konstantin, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, --- Flavius Valerius Constantinus, --- Konstantin, --- Konstantin --- Kōnstantinos, --- Kōnstantinos --- Konstantyn, --- Kostandianos --- Κωνσταντίνος, --- Флавий Валерий Аврелий Константин, --- Константин --- Константин, --- Syriac Christians. --- Primitive and early church. --- To 1500. --- Iran. --- Iraq. --- Chrétiens syriaques --- Flavije Valerije Konstantin --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Syriac Christians - History - To 1500 - Sources --- Syriac Christians - Iran - History - To 1500 --- Syriac Christians - Iraq - History - To 1500 --- Christianisme --- Symeon Bar-Sabba'e, m. --- Martyres Persae --- Sapor II, roi de Perse --- Sassanides --- Constantin empereur --- Iran - History - To 640 --- Iraq - History - To 634 --- 4th century mesopotamia. --- byzantine. --- christian converts. --- christian roman empire. --- constantine. --- conversion to christianity. --- eastern christians. --- ecclesiastical histories. --- first christian emperor. --- hagiography. --- history of constantine. --- history of persia. --- middle eastern christianity. --- persecution of christians in persia. --- persia. --- roman empire. --- sasanian empire. --- syriac christianity. --- syriac christians. --- zoroastrian sasanian empire.
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Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through their missionaries—had a strong hand in the development of a national and modern religious identity among one of the Middle East’s most intriguing (and little-known) groups: the modern Assyrians. Detailing the history of the Assyrian Christian minority and the powerful influence American missionaries had on them, he unveils the underlying connection between modern global contact and the retrieval of an ancient identity. American evangelicals arrived in Iran in the 1830s. Becker examines how these missionaries, working with the “Nestorian” Church of the East—an Aramaic-speaking Christian community in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire—catalyzed, over the span of sixty years, a new national identity. Instructed at missionary schools in both Protestant piety and Western science, this indigenous group eventually used its newfound scriptural and archaeological knowledge to link itself to the history of the ancient Assyrians, which in time led to demands for national autonomy. Exploring the unintended results of this American attempt to reform the Orient, Becker paints a larger picture of religion, nationalism, and ethnic identity in the modern era.
Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members --- Protestant churches --- Missionaries --- Evangelistic work --- Syriac Christians --- Assyrian Church of the East members --- Nationalism --- History --- Missions --- Religion --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Nestorians --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Evangelism --- Proselytizing --- Revival (Religion) --- Theology, Practical --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Religious awakening --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Religious adherents --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- Missions to Nestorians --- Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members - History - 19th century --- Protestant churches - Missions - Iran - History - 19th century --- Missionaries - United States - History - 19th century --- Evangelistic work - Iran - History - 19th century --- Syriac Christians - Iran - Religion - History - 19th century --- Assyrian Church of the East members - History - 19th century --- Nationalism - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - 19th century --- iran, nationalism, religion, politics, middle east, missionaries, evangelism, america, revolution, nation, identity, assyrian christian, nestorian, church, qajar, aramaic, protestant, piety, faith, ottoman empire, science, history, mirza david george malik, poetry, exile, political engagement, nineveh, literature, culture, morality, reform, government, nonfiction.
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Currently the only complete history in English of the Syriac Church of the East, this work covers the periods of the Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans and the twentieth century.
Assyrian Church of the East --- Nestorian Church --- History. --- 281.81 --- Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- 281.81 Chaldeeuwse Kerk: Oost-Syrische, Assyrische, Perzische christenen --- Church of the East --- Old East Syrian Church --- Apostolic and Catholic Assyrian Church of the East --- Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East --- Assyrian Orthodox Church --- بطريرك كنيسة المشرق الآشورية في العالم --- Baṭriyark Kanīsat al-Mashriq al-Ashūrīyah fī al-ʻĀlam --- ʻIdtā Qadíštā w-Šlíḥaytā Qatúlíqí d-Madnḥā d-ʾAtorāye --- Ancient Church of the East --- Assyria --- Church history --- Chaldean Catholic Church --- Church of the East members. --- Assyrian Church of the East members. --- Nestorians --- Syriac Christians
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