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The Struggle over Arabisation in Medieval Arabic Christian Hagiography

The Struggle over Arabisation in Medieval Arabic Christian Hagiography The process of Arabisation and Islamisation that began shortly after the Muslim conquests in greater Syro-Palestine was still in full swing well after the ‘Abbāsid revolution. One of the neglected sources for unravelling the nuances of the cultural transformations that were taking place is the Christian hagiography of the period. This article argues that the contrast between Byzantine and Arab Christian hagiography from the late eighth through the ninth century provides an important window in the process of Arabisation and Islamisation in the Early Islamic period. In particular when the Byzantine account of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba is compared to the Arabic account of the Martydom of Rawḣ al-Qurayshī, an Arab Christian, many of the significant features of the process of cultural change come to the fore. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

The Struggle over Arabisation in Medieval Arabic Christian Hagiography

VILA, DAVID
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean , Volume 15 (1): 12 – Mar 1, 2003
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The Struggle over Arabisation in Medieval Arabic Christian Hagiography

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The process of Arabisation and Islamisation that began shortly after the Muslim conquests in greater Syro-Palestine was still in full swing well after the ‘Abbāsid revolution. One of the neglected sources for unravelling the nuances of the cultural transformations that were taking place is the Christian hagiography of the period. This article argues that the contrast between Byzantine and Arab Christian hagiography from the late eighth through the ninth century provides an...
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Abstract

The process of Arabisation and Islamisation that began shortly after the Muslim conquests in greater Syro-Palestine was still in full swing well after the ‘Abbāsid revolution. One of the neglected sources for unravelling the nuances of the cultural transformations that were taking place is the Christian hagiography of the period. This article argues that the contrast between Byzantine and Arab Christian hagiography from the late eighth through the ninth century provides an important window in the process of Arabisation and Islamisation in the Early Islamic period. In particular when the Byzantine account of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba is compared to the Arabic account of the Martydom of Rawḣ al-Qurayshī, an Arab Christian, many of the significant features of the process of cultural change come to the fore.

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2003

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