The Book of Monasteries Al-Sh?busht?
A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle EastThe Book of Monasteries takes readers on a tour of the monasteries of the Middle East by presenting the rich variety of poetry and…
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A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle EastThe Book of Monasteries takes readers on a tour of the monasteries of the Middle East by presenting the rich variety of poetry and prose associated with each monastery. Starting with Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris into the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia before moving to Palestine and Syria, along the Euphrates down to the old Christian center of Ḥīrah and onward to Egypt. For the literary anthologist al-Shābushtī, who was Muslim, monasteries were important sites of interactions with Christian communities that made up about half the population of the Abbasid Empire at the time.Each section in this anthology covers a specific monastery, beginning with a discussion of its location and the reason for its name. Al-Shābushtī presents poems, anecdotes,
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