Icon Veneration as a Stumbling Block: Theodore Abu Qurra and Byzantine Orthodox Iconoclasts in the Early Abbasid Society

While earlier scholarship had thought of the Caliphate’s Byzantine Orthodox ('Melkite') Church as being as staunchly anti-iconoclast as John of Damascus and Theodore abu Qurra - its most celebrated theologians - were, more recent research has highlighted the existence of divergent, sometim...

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Main Author: Kavvadas, Nestor Chr. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: The journal of Eastern Christian studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 71-82
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Abbasids / Griechisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Iconoclasm / Islam / History 800-900
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
KBL Near East and North Africa
KCD Hagiography; saints
KDF Orthodox Church
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