Robert M. Haddad - Böcker

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase of Islamic civilization and the Ottoman collapse. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase of Islamic civilization and the Ottoman collapse. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Melkite church, one of the historical Middle Eastern Christian churches with roots in the Orthodox tradition, underwent a schism in 1724, as the Melkite Uniate Church, which enjoys communion with the Roman Catholic Church, was extracted from the Orthodox Melkite body (the Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch). This book provides the first study of this split, its repercussions and its embeddedness in the economic, political and religious contexts of Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Based on understudied Arabic and French sources, some of which are made available in English for the first time, this pioneering book explains the schism in the context of the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the decay of the Patriarchate of Antioch after a thousand years of Muslim political domination, and reveals how the two resulting churches engaged with broader historical changes.