Syriac Christianity under late Sasanian and early Islamic rule.(Brief Article)(Book Review) From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: February 1, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Book News, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

0860789756

Syriac Christianity under late Sasanian and early Islamic rule.

Reinink, G. J.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2005

350 pages

$114.95

Hardcover

BR1110

Reinink explores the literary responses of the Syriac Christian communities in North Mesopotamia and Iraq to the drastic political changes during the seventh and eighth centuries, particularly the Persian conquests and the occupation of the eastern provinces of Byzantium by the Persian shah Chosroes II, and the ...

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