Creating New Churches and Monasteries in Northern Mesopotamia: The Seventh to Ninth Centuries

Creating New Churches and Monasteries in Northern Mesopotamia: The Seventh to Ninth CenturiesSerie Arqueollógica 19Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9KJGU97C/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.PhilipWoodCreating New Churches and Monasteries in Northern Mesopotamia: The Seventh to Ninth Centurieshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9KJGU97Chttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9KJGU97Chttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9KJGU97CSimonPierreMaría de los ÁngelesUtrero AgudoFrom the Tigris to the Ebro: Church and Monastery Building under Early IslamMadridConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas2024151-166Serie Arqueollógica 19The construction of churches and welfare institutions like religious schools and xenodocheia were an indication of Christian communal wealth, as well as being a means of community reproduction. But their construction indicates other contexts as well, such as competition between lay elites and Christian confessions. Here I focus on hagiographies and chronicles from northern Mesopotamia. These allow us to chart the extensive construction of churches in the seventh and early eighth centuries, when the caliphal tax regime was much lighter than it was over the frontier in Byzantium. They also allow us to track the change in the attitude towards church construction by the Muslim government after the Abbasid revolution. After this point, construction and maintenance did continue, but only with the permission of the government and through the agency of specific clerics, at least in the cities. Wood, Philip. “Creating New Churches and Monasteries in Northern Mesopotamia: The Seventh to Ninth Centuries.” In From the Tigris to the Ebro: Church and Monastery Building under Early Islam, edited by Simon Pierre and María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo, 151–66. Serie Arqueollógica 19. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2024. Philip Wood, Creating New Churches and Monasteries in Northern Mesopotamia: The Seventh to Ninth Centuries, in From the Tigris to the Ebro: Church and Monastery Building under Early Islam, ed. Simon Pierre and María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo, Serie Arqueollógica 19 (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2024), 151–66.