Envisioning Islam by Michael Philip Penn
The earliest and largest corpus of Christian writings on Islam was written in the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Envisioning Islam shows how these previously neglected texts problematize modern perceptions of an exclusively hostile Christian reaction to Islam and revolutionize our understanding of the early Islamic world.-
Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority
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Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men
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Between Christ and Caliph
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The Sex Lives of Saints
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A Common Justice
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Rebuilding the House of Israel
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Christ Circumcised
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Liturgical Subjects
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The Fathers Refounded
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Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
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Saving Shame
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The Apocalypse of Empire
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Scripture As Logos
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Punishment and Freedom
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Zayd
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Sefer Yesirah and Its Contexts
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Thorns in the Flesh
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Spectacles of Empire
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Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World
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Demonic Desires
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The Death of a Prophet
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Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity
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Imitations of Infinity
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Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2
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The Godman and the Sea
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The Corporeal Imagination
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Apocalypse of the Alien God
"Penn's book is a mighty achievementIn Envisioning Islam, scholars at last have a one-stop survey of some of the richest but most poorly understood Syriac sources for the early Islamic period, paired with clear-headed analysis and sober conclusions. . . . Penn's book succeeds in defamiliarizing the early history of Muslim-Christian relations and will undoubtedly set the stage for future research on the topic." * The Medieval Review *
"A sophisticated and well-conceived study of the evolving depictions of Muslims in Syriac texts that will shed new light on the socially complicated history of early Islam." * Sydney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America *
"A sophisticated and well-conceived study of the evolving depictions of Muslims in Syriac texts that will shed new light on the socially complicated history of early Islam." * Sydney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America *
Michael Philip Penn is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is author of Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and editor of When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812247220 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812247221 |
| Title | Envisioning Islam |
| Author | Michael Philip Penn |
| Series | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2015-07-22 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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