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When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam

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"The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and eastern Turkey, these Syriac Christians were under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, wrote the earliest and most extensive accounts of Islam, and described a complicated set of religious and cultural ...

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When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam 2015, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520284944

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When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam 2015, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520284937

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