{"product_id":"stories-between-christianity-and-islam-9780520386464","title":"Stories between Christianity and Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of ChristianMuslim relations that shifts focus from discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. Here, the late antique and medieval Near East is viewed as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where stories of saints were used to interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future.     In this book, Reyhan Durmaz uses these stories to demonstrate and analyze the mutually constitutive relationship between these two religions in the Middle Ages. With an in-depth study of storytelling in Late Antiquity and the mechanisms of hagiographic transmission between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages, Durmaz develops a nuanced understanding of saints' stories as a tool for building identity, memory, and authority a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent inquiry into the hagiographic texts of Christianity and Islam from late antiquity. . . . a worthwhile read for students of Christian–Islamic intertextuality, one that raises many questions and thought-provoking arguments.\" * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Translation, Transliteration, and References\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Narrating Stories \u003cbr\u003e Sorting Stories \u003cbr\u003e Remembering Stories \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Storytelling in Late Antique Christianity\u003cbr\u003e Hagiography and Orality\u003cbr\u003e A World of Storytelling\u003cbr\u003e Storytellers in Late Antique Christianity \u003cbr\u003e Hagiographic Interviews and Audience Participation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. “How Is Muhammad a Better Storyteller Than I?” \u003cbr\u003e Who Is Narrating?\u003cbr\u003e Storytelling in the Quran\u003cbr\u003e The Broader Late Antique Context of Quranic Storytelling\u003cbr\u003e Functions of Storytelling in Muhammad’s Preaching\u003cbr\u003e Narrating Stories after Muhammad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Ask Him about the Youths”: Narrating the Quran with Christian Saints\u003cbr\u003e Q18: The Cave \u003cbr\u003e The Companions of the Cave \u003cbr\u003e The Rich Man and the Poor Man\u003cbr\u003e Moses, the Unnamed Servant of God, and the Two-Horned\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Christian Saints in Islamic Literature \u003cbr\u003e Remembering Saint Antony\u003cbr\u003e South Arabian Historiography and Alexander the Believing King \u003cbr\u003e Saint George in Al-Tabarī’s History of the Prophets and Kings \u003cbr\u003e Looking at Buildings, Narrating Saint Marūthā \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Paul and John to Fīmyūn and Sālih\u003cbr\u003e Transformation of a Story\u003cbr\u003e Ibn Ishāq on the Authority of Wahb b. Munabbih \u003cbr\u003e Fīmyūn and S. ālih in Context\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stories between Christianity and Islam \u003cbr\u003e Monks, Monasticism, and the Islamic Notion of Sanctity \u003cbr\u003e Authorship and Transmission of Hagiographic Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Narratives in and of the Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402959331671,"sku":"9780520386464","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520386464.jpg?v=1730481968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stories-between-christianity-and-islam-9780520386464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}