Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area

Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul AreaOrientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 198Syriaca.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/DI7BGVTR/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.BasSneldersIdentity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Areahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DI7BGVTRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DI7BGVTRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DI7BGVTRLouvainPeeters2010Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 198As elsewhere in the Middle East, the Mosul area witnessed a flourishing of Christian art during the thirteenth century. Discussing both art-historical and written sources, this book examines the role of art in expressing the identity of Mosul’s Syrian Orthodox community, and explores the relationship between Christian and Islamic art. Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East during the medieval period have often been seen in terms of conflict and violent opposition, a presumed dichotomy which focuses almost exclusively on theological differences and fails to take account of the social complexities of daily life. The present study challenges these simplistic views of division along religious lines, seeing the boundaries between the Christian and Muslim communities as areas of intermingling rather than separation. A detailed comparative analysis between Christian and Islamic art provides a far more nuanced picture of extensive cultural interaction, in which the Christians were fully integrated into their environment while still retaining their own exclusive religious and communal identity. Snelders, Bas. Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 198. Louvain: Peeters, 2010. Bas Snelders, Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 198 (Louvain: Peeters, 2010).Deir al-SurianIX CEJacobitesMoses of NisibisMosulMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEX CEXII CEXIII CEarchaeologyartchurchesfrescoesiconographyidentityillustrationsmetalworkmonastery of Mar Behnammonastery of Mar Mattaymonasticismsculpture