Eastern Christian Books

In the dozen years this blog has now been active, it has been an especial joy to watch increased scholarly attention to the Syriac tradition...

The historical experiences of, and current realities lived by, Arabic Christians continue to fascinate me. Happily a new book further unfold...

Much romanticized nonsense is talked by both Christians and Muslims about our individual and shared pasts. Too much history traffics in narr...

If I had lots of time and money, and the requisite languages, I have long wanted to go and spend endless amounts of time immersed in Ottoman...

There is still much to be learned about early Muslim-Christian encounters in the first generations of Islam and its gradual conquest of the ...

I've followed the work of the relatively young scholar Jack Tannous for some time, and been consistently impressed. So it is with eager...

Every group, nation, state, culture, or even church or religious group tends to write the history of its founding and of its past with a cer...

For complicated but often quite defensible reasons, some Eastern Christians in Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere have sometimes been strong propon...

First released in hardcover in 2014, and then this past May in paperback, Maged Mikhail's  From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Id...

When we were last met together , we were discussing Michael Philip Penn's two recent and highly valuable books. In those he mentions oth...

I taught a course this past summer entitled "ISIS and the Crusades," looking at the uses and abuses of history  by ISIS in its tal...

Sam Noble continues the absolutely vital work of making Arab Christian history better known. Fresh off his edited collection with Sasha Trei...

I have noted many books over the years about Ottoman history, especially the history of Muslim-Christian relations in the empire. I have als...

I'm looking forward to teaching a course next year on the uses and abuses of history, focusing on Christian-Muslim relations and the eve...

As I've argued here and elsewhere, many people still today greet the concept of Arab Christians with slack-jawed disbelief: aren't a...

It is something of a commonplace among scholars who study the origins of Islam and its first encounters with Christians that the historical ...