{"product_id":"the-book-of-monasteries-9781479835928","title":"The Book of Monasteries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 ?irah and onward to Egypt. For the literary anthologist al-Shabushti, 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-Shabushti presents poems, anecdotes, and historical reports related to each. He selects heroic and spectacular incidents, illustrations of caliphal extravagance, and events that gave rise to memo","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040550453591,"sku":"9781479835928","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479835928.jpg?v=1750947086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-book-of-monasteries-9781479835928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}