Stories between Christianity and Islam

Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520386464

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Reyhan Durmaz is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and co-translator of Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Women Whom Jesus Met.

Recensioner i media

"An excellent inquiry into the hagiographic texts of Christianity and Islam from late antiquity. . . . a worthwhile read for students of Christian–Islamic intertextuality, one that raises many questions and thought-provoking arguments."

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation, Transliteration, and ReferencesIntroductionNarrating Stories Sorting Stories Remembering Stories 1. Storytelling in Late Antique ChristianityHagiography and OralityA World of StorytellingStorytellers in Late Antique Christianity Hagiographic Interviews and Audience Participation 2. “How Is Muhammad a Better Storyteller Than I?” Who Is Narrating?Storytelling in the QuranThe Broader Late Antique Context of Quranic StorytellingFunctions of Storytelling in Muhammad’s PreachingNarrating Stories after Muhammad3. “Ask Him about the Youths”: Narrating the Quran with Christian SaintsQ18: The Cave The Companions of the Cave The Rich Man and the Poor ManMoses, the Unnamed Servant of God, and the Two-Horned4. Christian Saints in Islamic Literature Remembering Saint AntonySouth Arabian Historiography and Alexander the Believing King Saint George in Al-Tabarī’s History of the Prophets and Kings Looking at Buildings, Narrating Saint Marūthā 5. From Paul and John to Fīmyūn and SālihTransformation of a StoryIbn Ishāq on the Authority of Wahb b. Munabbih Fīmyūn and S. ālih in Context6. Stories between Christianity and Islam Monks, Monasticism, and the Islamic Notion of Sanctity Authorship and Transmission of Hagiographic KnowledgeNarratives in and of the FamilyAbbreviations Notes Bibliography Index