Living under muslim rule from the seventh century to the present syriac christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of islam describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonisticthrough its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical materialwhen christians first met muslimsallows scholars students and the general public to explore the earliest interactions between what eventually became the . A sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam when christians first met muslims a sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam michael philip penn the first christians to meet muslims were not latin speaking christians from the western mediterranean or greek speaking christians from constantinople but rather christians from . When christians first met muslims a sourcebook of the earliest syriac writings on islam penn michael philip isbn 9780520284944 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Michael philip penns when christians first met muslims is an extremely important text the sources penn collated in syriac are among some of the earliest reports we have about the emerging community there scholars of the latest of late antiquity of early byzantium and of the early community of believers around muhammad will benefit from having these sources in english penns scholarship is truly superior ellen muehlberger author of. Michael philip penns when christians first met muslims is an extremely important text the sources penn collated in syriac are among some of the earliest reports we have about the emerging community there scholars of the latest of late antiquity of early byzantium and of the early community of believers around muhammad will benefit from having these sources in english penns scholarship is truly superior ellen muehlberger author of