The View from the Monasteries: Taxes, Muslims and Converts in the "Pseudepigrapha" from Middle Egypt
This paper analyzes a group of homilies composed in Middle Egypt around the early ninth century CE by monastic leaders who had to cope with unsettling changes in local politics and society. The corpus deals with issues of taxation, economic distress and conversion to Islam in subtle and indirect way...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Medieval encounters
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 297-344 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pseudepigrapha
/ Egypt
/ Islamization
/ Order
/ Monastery
/ Interfaith dialogue
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
| Further subjects: | B
Middle Egypt
B Farms B Monasteries B Early Islamic Egypt B Religious Literature B Islamization |
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