The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton University Press) highlights the vital role regular Christians in the Middle East played during the rise of Islam in the early first millennium CE as Christianity fractured over high-level theological disagreements. Jack Tannous interprets a wide swath of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to provide a new religious perspective on the late antique and medieval Middle East.