Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in Christian Middle East
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815632614
ISBN13:9780815632610
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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