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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wood, Philip (1982-....)
Titre(s) : The Imam of the Christians [Texte imprimé] : the world of Dionysius of Tel-mahre, c. 750-850 / Philip Wood
Publication : Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-286 p.) : cartes ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 247-280. Index
"This book considers how Christians adopted the governmental practices and political
thought of their Muslim rulers. It explores how this encounter produced an Islamicate
Christianity, that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe
in far more than just theology. It focuses on the history of the Jacobite patriarch
of Antioch, Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, and examines the Jazira in the century after the
Abbasid Revolution (750-850). It argues that the Abbasid period saw the higher clergy
able to command increased powers over their co-religionists, such as issuing canons
to regulate the lives of laymen, gathering tithes and arresting Christian opponents.
Dionysius' historical writing advertises the patriarch's savoir-faire as he interacts
with the court of Abdallah in Raqqa or the caliph al-Ma'mun in Baghdad. It presents
him as an effective advocate for the interests of his co-religionists through his
knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage.
Strikingly, he observes that both he and al-Ma'mun are imams, since they lead their
people in prayer and rule by popular consensus. On this basis, he claims, the caliph
should support his leadership in order to guarantee the social order of the caliphate.
The Imam of the Christians offers Dionysius' history as a window into the world of
early Islam, and as an example more generally of how a powerful worldview can set
the parameters by which other worldviews operate"
Sujet(s) : Talmaḥrī, Dyūnīsyūs al- (0773-0845) -- Islam
Christianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Arabie -- Djazīrah -- 8e siècle
Christianisme -- Influence islamique -- Arabie -- Djazīrah -- 8e siècle
Eglise syrienne orthodoxe -- Islam -- Arabie -- Djazīrah -- 8e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
261.270 91767 (23e éd.) = Christianisme et islam - Régions où l'islam prédomine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691212791 (rel.). - ISBN 0691212791. - ISBN 9780691219950 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467993518
Notice n° :
FRBNF46799351
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Lay Elites under Arab Rule ; Patriarchs and Bishops ; Tithes, Authority and Hierarchy
; Changing Centres of Power : Harran, Kakushta and Cyrrhus ; Takrit and Mosul : the
Jacobite east ; World Views and Communal Boundaries ; Dionysius and al-Maʼmun ;
Patriarchate and Imamate : Dionysius' Use of Muslim Political Thought ; Conceptions
of Suryaya Identity.
