The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam Sidney H. Griffith
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. By Sidney H. Griffith. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modem World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi + 223 pp. $35.00 cloth. The “shadow” referenced in the title of this volume on the “Arabophone” Christians of the Islamic world from the seventh to thirteenth centuries, Sidney H. Griffith informs his readers, possesses a double meaning. Certainly, Islam “overshadowed” the Syriac- and Arabic-speaking Christians who...
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