Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity Volume 54

by Walter D. Ward

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Mirage of the Saracen analyzes the growth of monasticism and Christian settlements in the Sinai Peninsula through the early seventh century C.E. Walter D. Ward examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called "Saracens."...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520283775

ISBN13:9780520283770

Release Date:December 2014

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality

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