Christianity : a history in the Middle East
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog8605
- Publication Date
- 2005
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- BR 1070 M374 2005
- Place of Publication
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Publisher
- Middle East Council of Church, Studies & Research Program
- Publication Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 933 p. : ill.(some col.), maps
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "First printing 2005".
- "Habib Badr, Chief editor. Suad Abou el Rouss Slim, Assistant editor. Joseph Abou Nohra, Assistant editor".
- "This book is an English translation from the Arabic `Al Masihiyya 'Abra Tarikhiha fi al-Mashreq'. Published by the Middle East Council of Churches ... 2001". -- p. [5].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "This book was prepared in cooperation between The Middle East Council of Churches and many churches of the region and some local, regional and international church-based and cultural organizations." -- verso of t.-p.
- Contents: The Middle East Council of Churches : A Brief Presentation -- The Funding Bodies -- The Book Committee -- Notes on Contributors -- Editor's Notes -- System of Transliteration -- Forward / Guirguis Ibrahim Saleh -- Preface / Afaf Deeb-Kandis -- Introduction to the Arabic Edition / The Editorial Committee -- Introduction to the English Edition / Habib Badr -- Christianity in the 1st Century : In the Context of the Mediterranean Civilizations : Judaic, Greek, Roman and Asian / Pierre Canivet -- In the Context of the Mediterranean Civilizations : Coptic Civilization / Gawdat Gabra -- Christianity in the Middle East, in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries / Pierre Maraval -- Autocracy and Religion in Byzantium, in the 4th and 5th Centuries / Alain Ducellier -- The Rise of Christian Thought I: Theological Thought in the School of Alexandria / Tadros Yacoub Malaty -- II: Theological Schools of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis / Sebastian Brock -- The Shaping of Christian Thought I: The Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople / Joseph Buhagiar -- II: The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, The Christological Controversies of the 4th and 5th Centuries / Metropolitan Bishop -- The Rise of Eastern Churches and Their Heritage (5th to 8th Century): The Arab Christian Tradition / Irfan Shahid -- Churches of the Syriac Tradition : I: The West Syriacs Mar Sawirus Ishak Saka -- II: The Assyrians (East Syriacs) / Mar Bawai Soro -- III: The Maronites / Elias Khalifeh el-Hachem -- Churches of the Byzantine Tradition / George Atiyyeh -- Churches of the Coptic Tradition : I: The Copts / Gawdat Gabra -- II: The Nubians / Gawdat Gabra -- III: The Ethiopians / Getatchew Haili -- The Armenian Church / Manoushag Boyadjian -- Ascetic Movement in the East : Origins, Development and Dissemination: In Egypt / Pope Shenouda III -- II: In Syria, Iraq and Palestine / Shafiq AbouZayd -- The Deaconess in the Syriac Church / Clemence Helou -- Arab Christianity Before the Rise of Islam / Irfan Shahid -- Christianity in the Early Islamic Decades (610-660) / Gerard Troupeau -- Christianity in the Umayyad Era (661-750) / Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim -- The Role of Christians in the Abbasid Renaissance in Iraq and Syria (750-1050) / Samir Khalil Samir -- The Copts in the Fatimid Era / Coptic Center for Social Studies -- Christians in the Middle East Under the Franks : I: Motives for the Crusades : A European Perspective / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- II: The Crusades : A Middle Eastern Perspective / Farah Firzli -- Christians in the Non-Arab Islamic Era : I: Christians in the Ayyubid Era / Farah Firzli -- II: Christians Under the Mamluks / Jorgen Nielsen -- Christianity in the First Ottoman Empire (1516-1650) / Asterios Argyriou -- The Development of Catholicism in the Middle East (16th to 19th Century) / Bernard Heyberger -- Christians in the Second Ottoman Era (17th Century) I / Vincenzo Poggi -- II: The Copts / Samir Morcos -- Catholic Missions in the Middle East / Salim Daccache -- Evangelical Missions and Churches in the Middle East: Introduction I: Lebanon, Syria and Turkey / Habib Badr -- II: Palestine and Jordan / Rafiq Farah -- III: Egypt and Sudan / Adib Naguib Salamah -- IV: Iraq and the Gulf / Lewis R. Scudder, Jr. -- The Renaissance of Churches at the End of the Ottoman Era (Excluding Egypt) the 18th and 19th Centuries / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Revival of the Egyptian Church Since the Middle of the 19th Century / Metropolitan Bishop -- Christians and the Arab Renaissance / Jerome Chahine -- Origins of the Principle of Citizenship in the Tradition of the Copts and the History of Their Country / William Suleiman Qalada -- Christians in the Arab East : An Interpretation of Contemporary History / Tarek Mitri -- Ecumenism in the Middle East : I: History / Jean Corbon -- II: A Personal Experience / Gabriel Habib -- III: Future Horizons / Riad Jarjour -- Ecumenism on the Threshold of the Third Millennium / Catholicos Aram I -- Further Reading -- Index of Historic Places -- Index of Historic Proper Names.
- Contributor Archdeacon Rafiq Farah is an Anglican priest, formerly of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, now of the Anglican Church of Canada.
- Added Entry
- Badr, Habib, 1950-
- Slim, Souad Abou el-Rousse, 1952-
- Nohra, Joseph Abou
- Middle East Council of Churches
- AbouZayd, Shafiq, 1954-
- Aram I (Aram Keshishian), Catholicos of Cilicia, 1947-
- Argyrious, Asterios, 1935-
- Atiyyeh, George, 1940-
- Bishop, Metropolitan, 1942-
- Boyadjian, Manoushag, 1946-2005
- Brock, Sebastian
- Buhagiar, Joseph, 1942-
- Canivet, Pierre, 1916-
- Chahine, Jerome, 1941-
- Coptic Center for Social Studies
- Corbon, Jean, 1924-2001
- Daccache, Salim
- Ducellier, Alain, 1934-
- el-Hashem, Elias Khalifeh, 1938-
- Farah, Rafiq A. (Rafiq Amin), 1921-
- Ferzli, Farah
- Gabra, Gawdat, 1947-
- Habib, Gabriel, 1937-
- Haili, Getatchew
- Helou, Clemence, 1931-
- Heyberger, Bernard, 1954-
- Ignatius IV, Patriarch, 1920-
- Jarjour, Riad, 1948-
- Malaty, Tadros Yacoub
- Maraval, Pierre, 1936-
- Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine, 1964-
- Mitri, Tarek, 1950-
- Morcos, Samir
- Nielsen, Jorgen S., 1946-
- Poggi, Vincenzo, 1928-
- Qalada, William Suleiman, 1924-1999
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan
- Saka, Sawirus Ishak, 1931-
- Salamah, Adib Naguib, 1948-2004
- Samir, Samir Khalil, 1938-
- Scudder, Lewis R., 1941-
- Shahid, Irfan
- Shenouda III, Pope, 1923-2012
- Soro, Bawai, 1954-
- Troupeau, Gerard, 1927-
- Subjects
- Christianity - Arab countries - History
- Christians - Middle East - History
- Church and state - Middle East - History
- Middle East - Church history
- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Councils and synods
- Coptic Church - History
- Syriac Orthodox Church - History
- Syrian Orthodox Church - History
- Assyrian Church of the East - History
- Maronites - History
- Catholic Church - Antiochene rite - History
- Orthodox Eastern Church - History
- Orthodox Eastern Church - Middle East
- Ethiopian Orthodox Church - History
- Armenian Church - History
- Monasticism and religious orders - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
- Deaconesses - Syriac Orthodox Church
- Palestinian Christians - History
- Crusades
- Church history
- Ecumenical movement - Middle East
- ISBN
- 9953-0-0343-2
- Call Number
- BR 1070 M374 2005
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries