Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Preface XI
5. Abbreviations XV
6. List of Contributors XVII
7. Listing of Plates XXI
8. The Patriarch Išo‘yahb III and the Christians of Qaṭar in the first Islamic Century 1
9. Greek Philosophy and Syriac Culture in Early ‘Abbasid Iraq 10
10. Patriarch Timothy and an Aristotelian at the Caliph’s court 38
11. The Great Monastery at Mount Izla and the Defence of the East Syriac Identity 54
12. The Cultural Contribution of Monasticism in Iraq 64
13. Der Mār Behnam - The Monastery of Saint Behnam 81
14. The Syriac Bible in Central Asia 92
15. Prester John’s Realm: New Light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan 121
16. Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Biškek, Kirghizstan 136
17. Chaldæans and Assyrians: the Church of the East in the Ottoman Period 146
18. Commemorating Church History in the Ottoman Era: Monumental Inscriptions and Art 165
19. Magic and Medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan 187
20. World War I and the Assyrians 203
21. The Syriac Bible in the Private Assyrian Schools in Iraq 221
22. The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iraq 226
23. Christianity in Iraq: Modern History, Theology, Dialogue and Politics (until 2003) 237
24. Plates 285