2009/01/01 by Herman G.B. Teule · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Byzantine Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1163/187124109x407899
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Abstract The present article studies some aspects of the literary output of three Syriac Orthodox authors, Dionysius bar Salibi, Jacob bar Shakko, and Gregory Barhebraeus, who are considered the most important representatives of the period known as 'the Syriac Renaissance' (twelfth and thirteenth centuries). The focus of this study is on the growing importance of Arabic, the concern for the preservation of Syriac, considered as an important identity marker, the influence of Muslim cultural patterns and the West Syrian attitude to Islam as a religious system, and, finally, the emergence or rejection of ideas which tend to consider the Christologies of the East Syrians and Chalcedonians acceptable.