Living under muslim rule from the seventh century to the present syriac christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of islam describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonisticthrough its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical materialwhen christians first met muslimsallows scholars students and the general public to explore the earliest interactions between what eventually became the . When christians first met muslims a sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam penn michael philip isbn 9780520284944 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. When christians first met muslims a sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam english edition ebook penn michael philip amazonde kindle shop. The first christians to meet muslims were not latin speaking christians from the western mediterranean or greek speaking christians from constantinople but rather christians from northern mesopotamia who spoke the aramaic dialect of syriac living under muslim rule from the seventh century to the present syriac christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of islam describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic. When christians first met muslims a sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam michael philip penn university of california press contents acknowledgments xi prologue the year 630 xiii introduction 1 account ad 637 21 chronicle ad 640 25 letters ishoyahb iii 29 apocalypse of pseudo ephrem 37 khuzistan chronicle 47 viii contents maronite chronicle 54 syriac life of maximus the