1st Edition
Between Constantinople, the Papacy, and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World, 634-969
By Krzysztof Kościelniak
Copyright 2022
238 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria and, following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt, they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization, moving from the privileged position of the... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The development of the Melkite Church to the Arab conquests
3. The situation of the Melkite Church in the first centuries of Islam (634–750)
4. Melkites in the Centralized and Disintegrating Abbāsid Caliphate 750–969
5. Conclusions
Biography
Krzysztof Kościelniak is Professor of the History of the Middle East, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
