{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-medieval-middle-east-9780691203157","title":"The Making of the Medieval Middle East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a large, wide-ranging and important book. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Medieval Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e is, in sum, an impressive tome that will undoubtedly help us to rethink how this region became Muslim and make us reconsider the many blind spots and assumptions our traditional paradigms have included.\"\u003cb\u003e---Aaron W. Hughes, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an excellent book that undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars could all engage with at different levels, and all read with great profit.\"\u003cb\u003e---Philip Wood, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable achievement that energetically articulates a little-studied research field: the fate of the Christian population in the era of Muslim conquests and the beginning of the formation of Muslim civilization in the Middle East.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rustam M. Shukurov, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Church and State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Its greatest contribution is that it opens up many new lines of research.\"\u003cb\u003e---R. Stephen Humphreys, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Medieval Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ramez Mikhail, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Orthodox Christian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book that will sit on the desks of social historians of the eastern Mediterranean for the foreseeable future. . . . [Tannous] excels in persuasive rhetoric and transmits his enthusiasm in a very compelling manner. . . . Ultimately his message is incontrovertible.\"\u003cb\u003e---Arietta Papaconstantinou, \u003ci\u003eBustan: The Middle East Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ingenious study of the history of the late Roman and early medieval Middle East.\"\u003cb\u003e---Valentina A. Grasso, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Oriental Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865546043735,"sku":"9780691203157","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691203157.jpg?v=1722274491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-medieval-middle-east-9780691203157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}