Christians and Others in the Umayyad State

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Christians and Others in the Umayyad State presents scholarly contributions on Christians and other religious communities in the Umayyad period (c. 200–1000 C.E. in the series’ scope). It collects papers examining material culture, Christian-Muslim relations, communal identities, cooperation and coexistence, non-Muslims in early Islamic military contexts, literary constructions of Umayyad authority, and legal-ideological issues concerning non-Muslim officials, alongside front matter and indexes.

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Christians and Others in the Umayyad State ********** Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) The new Oriental Institute series LAMINE aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents — in short, any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 c.e. ********** Christians and Others in the Umayyad State edited by Antoine Borrut and Fred M . Donner with contributions by Antoine Borrut, Touraj Daryaee, Muriel Debié, Fred M. Donner, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadād al-Qāḍī, Milka Levy-Rubin, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Donald Whitcomb, and Luke Yarbrough 2016 LAMINE 1 LATE ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC NEAR EAST • NUMBER 1 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Library of Congress Control Number: 2015956904 ISBN: 978-1-614910-31-2 © 2016 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2016. Printed in the United States of America. The Oriental Institute, Chicago THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LATE ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC NEAR EAST • NUMBER 1 Series Editors Leslie Schramer and Thomas G. Urban with the assistance of Rebecca Cain With special thanks to Tasha Vorderstrasse. Cover Illustration St. John of Damascus, icon from Damascus, Syria ([d. ca. 131/749](d. ca. 131/749)). 19th century, attributed to Iconographer Ne’meh Naser Homsi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus\#/media/File:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus#/media/File:)[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus#/media/File:)[John_Damascus_%28arabic_icon%29.gif](John_Damascus_%28arabic_icon%29.gif) ([accessed 1/21/2016](accessed 1/21/2016)) Printed by Thomson-Shore, Dexter, Michigan, U.S.A. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Services — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39 .48-1984. ∞ Table of Contents Acknowledgments ................................................................. vii Abbreviations ..................................................................... ix Introduction Christians and Others in the Umayyad State ................................... 1 Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner Contributions 1. Notes for an Archaeology of Muʿāwiya: Material Culture in the Transitional Period of Believers......................................................... 11 Donald Whitcomb, The Oriental Institute 2. The Manṣūr Family and Saint John of Damascus: Christians and Muslims in Umayyad Times ........................................................... 29 Sidney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America 3. Christians in the Service of the Caliph: Through the Looking Glass of Communal Identities ....................................................... 53 Muriel De

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