Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 237
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691184180
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on eight years of research, "Martyrs" addresses two questions: how did the majority-Christian Middle East of Late Antiquity transform into the majority-Muslim world of today? What role did violence and coercion play in this process? "Martyrs" is based on hagiographies of Christian martyrdom in the early Islamic state which survive in Greek, Arabic, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian, contextualized in Islamic historical and legal sources. The book narrates the formation of the Islamic empire from al-Andalus to the Caucasus, elaborating the perspectives of the Christian subject population, and also individuals who challenged Islamization and Arabization, including apostates and blasphemers.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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