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Author(s):	al-Shabushti

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	147982576X
Pages:	300	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East

The Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic centers of the medieval Middle East, illustrated with a rich variety of poetry and prose. Starting with monasteries in Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris into the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia before moving to Palestine and Syria, along the Euphrates down to the old Christian center of rah and onward to Egypt. For the literary anthologist al-Shbusht, who was Muslim, monasteries were important sites of interactions between Abbasid elites and the Christian communities that made up about half the population of the Abbasid Empire at the time.

Each section in this anthology covers a specific monastery, beginning with a discussion of its location and the reason for its name. Al-Shbusht presents poems, anecdotes, and historical reports related to each site. He selects heroic and spectacular incidents, illustrations of caliphal extravagance, and occasions that gave rise to memorable verse. Important political personalities and events that were indirectly linked with monasteries also appear here, as do scenes of festive court life and gruesome murders. Through these accounts, al-Shbusht offers readers a meditation on the splendor of Abbasid culture as well as moral and philosophical lessons: the ephemerality of power  the virtues of generosity and tolerance  the effectiveness of eloquence in prose and poetry  and the fleeting nature of pleasure and beauty. Translated into English for the first time,

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