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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.PhilipWoodChristian Elite Networks in the Jazīra, c.730–850http://syriaca.org/cbss/EDVS4T5Rhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EDVS4T5Rhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EDVS4T5RHannah-LenaHagemannStefanHeidemannTransregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire: The Early Islamic Empire at Work Volume 1BerlinWalter de Gruyter2020359-384Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36A major survival from the Roman Near East that endured within the caliphate was the episcopal and monastic networks making up the different Christian denominations. This article draws on the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian to illustrate how the caliphate became an increasingly hostile environment for Christian landed lay elites, incentivizing powerful families to take roles in the state’s administration or within the church. Using examples from the Jacobite church, I argue that the state became increasingly involved in church governance, by publicly endorsing the patriarch and his ability to raise revenues from Christians, and by supporting him with state troops against rival clerics.
Wood, Philip. “Christian Elite Networks in the Jazīra, c.730–850.” In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire: The Early Islamic Empire at Work Volume 1, edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, 359–84. Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020.
Philip Wood, Christian Elite Networks in the Jazīra, c.730–850, in Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire: The Early Islamic Empire at Work Volume 1, ed. Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020), 359–84.IX CEJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEVIII CEbishopsclergyeliteslaitysocietytaxes