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Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and
by Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
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Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian-Muslim relations that shifts focus from discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. Here, the late antique and medieval Near East is viewed as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where stories of saints were used to interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future.
In this book, Reyhan Durmaz uses these stories to demonstrate and analyze the mutually constitutive relationship between these two religions in the Middle Ages. With an in-depth study of storytelling in Late Antiquity and the mechanisms of hagiographic transmission between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages, Durmaz develops a nuanced understanding of saints' stories as a tool for building identity, memory, and authority across confessional boundaries.
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- University of California Brand
- Oct 25, 2022 Pub Date:
- 9780520386464 ISBN-13:
- 0520386469 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 1.1 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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