Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
Author: Dr Bruno De Nicola
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1472448634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence.