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Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Durmaz, Reyhan

Hardcover

Comparative ReligionIslamGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0520386469
ISBN13: 9780520386464
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 25 2022
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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