CHAPTER 2: The Simple and the Learned

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Maps xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Simple Belief
7. CHAPTER 1: Theological Speculation and Theological Literacy 11
8. CHAPTER 2: The Simple and the Learned 46
9. Part II: Consequences of Chalcedon
10. CHAPTER 3: ‘Confusion in the Land’ 85
11. CHAPTER 4: Contested Truths 111
12. CHAPTER 5: Power in Heaven and on Earth 134
13. CHAPTER 6: Competition, Schools, and Qenneshre 160
14. CHAPTER 7: Education and Community Formation 181
15. Interlude: The Question of Continuity
16. CHAPTER 8: Continuities—Personal and Institutional 201
17. Part III: Christians and Muslims
18. CHAPTER 9: A House with Many Mansions 225
19. CHAPTER 10: A Religion with a Thousand Faces 260
20. CHAPTER 11: Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority 310
21. CHAPTER 12: Conversion and the Simple—The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same 353
22. CHAPTER 13: Finding Their Way—The Mosque in the Shadow of the Church 400
23. Part IV: The Making of the Medieval Middle East
24. CHAPTER 14: Rubbing Shoulders A Shared World 431
25. CONCLUSION: Dark Matter and the History of the Middle East 491
26. APPENDIX I. Approaching the Sources 505
27. APPENDIX II. The ‘Arab’ Conquests 525
28. Abbreviations 537
29. Works Cited 541
30. Permissions 621
31. Index 623