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Writing 'true stories'
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| Title |
Writing 'true stories' : historians and hagiographers in the late antique and medieval Near East / edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou in collaboration with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Papaconstantinou, Arietta Debié, Muriel Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.) |
| Publisher |
Turnhout : Brepols |
| Creation Date |
c2010 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Content |
Writing true stories : a view from the West / Catherine Cubitt -- Early Byzantine historiography and hagiography as different modes of Christian practice / Derek Krueger -- Creating local history : Coptic encomia celebrating past events / Gesa Schenke -- A saint and his biographer in Late Antique Iraq :the History of St George of Izla ([cross] 614) by Babai the Great / Joel Walker -- Writing history as "histoires" : the biographical dimension of East Syriac historiography / Muriel Debié -- Converting the Caliph :a legendary motif in Christian hagiography and historiography of the Early Islamic Period / André Binggeli -- He was tall and slender, and his virtues were numerous : Byzantine hagiographical topoi and the companions of Muḥammad in al-Azdī's Futūḥ al-Shām / Nancy Khalek -- Become infidels or we will throw you into the fire' :the martyrs of Najrān in early Muslim historiography, hagiogrpahy, and Qur'ānic exegesis / Thomas Sizgorich -- Ibn al-Azraq, Saint Marūthā, and the foundation of Mayyāfāriqīn (Martyropolis) / Harry Munt -- Christian king, Muslim apostate : depictions of Jabala ibn al-Ayham in early Arabic sources / Julia Bray -- Variations on an Egyptian female martyr legend : history, hagiography, and the gendered politics of Medieval Arab religious identity / Stephen J. Davis -- Sainthood achieved : Coptic Patriarch Zacharias according to The history of the patriarchs / Mark N. Swanson |
| Series |
Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages v. 9 |
| Extent |
x, 230 pages 24 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990032434440205171 |
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