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Abstract This paper contributes to ‘visiting friends and relatives’ (VFR) discussions within migration and diaspora literatures by proposing a closer theorization of religious mobilities through the conceptual framework of ‘diasporic pilgrimage’.
Annabel C. Evans
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With the expansion of Islam, the patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria were divided from the Byzantine Empire. The Orthodox Christians there still defined themselves as Byzantine Orthodox and began to adapt their liturgical customs by ...
Martin Lüstraeten
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Jacobite Explanation of the Trinity in the Context of Muʿtazilite Theology: Abu Raʾitah al-Takriti [PDF]
The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries.
Vali Abdi
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The Melkites were one of the eastern Christian communities that came under Islamic rule following the Arab conquests. To stay in conversation with their Muslim codebaters and political leaders, the Melkites were the first among the Christian groups in ...
Phillipus J. Buys, Samuel Nwokoro
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Theodore abu Qurrah As a polemicist with Monophysites [PDF]
Theodore Abu Qurrah c. 750 — c. 830 A. D., Bishop of Harran, the founder of the Melkite theological tradition, is mainly known in modern patrology as an apologist for Christianity in the face of Islam, Judaism and Manichaeism.
Oleg Davydenkov
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“Dark age” of palestinian monasticism: decline and revival of near eastern monasteries at the turn of mamluk and ottoman epochs [PDF]
This article analyses the fates of Near Eastern monasteries, primarily Sinai monastery of St. Catherine and Palestinian monastery Mar Saba in the “darkest” period of their history, namely the second half of the 15th — fi rst half of the 16th centuries ...
Konstantin Panchenko
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The Commentary in the Melkite Lectionary
This article investigates a little-known yet highly significant facet of the Arabic liturgical Gospel books – the commentary that was introduced into the Gospel readings from at least the 11th century to the 19th century, notably during the time of Patriarch Athanasios III Dabbās, the last publisher to include this commentary.
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An archaic cycle of the lenten “idiomela of the day” in the Syro-melkite Tropologion Sinait. syr. 48 [PDF]
The article focuses on the early history of the corpus of daily lenten “idiomela of the day” — one of the most important hymnographic cycles of the byzantine Lenten Triodion, its origins dating back to the earliest stages of the Jerusalem liturgical ...
Aleksandr Lukashevich
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The Greek Orthodox Community of Northern Lebanon in the Beginning of the Ottoman Epoch [PDF]
This article is devoted to a less-known period in the political history of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, namely the early decades of the Ottoman rule (1530s–1540s).
Konstantin Panchenko
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The principle of preserving the syllabic structure in the syromelkite translations of hymnographic texts (on the material of the idiomela of the Lenten Triodion) [PDF]
The article describes the application of the equimetric principle in translating hymnographic texts from Greek into classical Syriac. The meaning of the term “equimetric translation” is specified, and terminological analogies are provided.
Aleksandr Lukashevich
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