When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam

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The first Christians to meet up Muslims weren’t Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but instead Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac.

Through its vital introductions and fresh translations of the invaluable historical materials, When Christians First Met Muslims enables scholars, students, and everyone to explore the initial interactions between what ultimately became the globe’s two largest religions, shedding fresh light on Islamic background and Christian-Muslim relations. Living under Muslim guideline from the seventh hundred years for this, Syriac Christians wrote the initial and most intensive accounts of Islam, describing an elaborate set of spiritual and cultural exchanges not really reducible to the exclusively antagonistic.

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