Caliphs on the Throne of Constantine: Syriac Orthodox Reassessment of Kingship in the Umayyad and Abbasid Period Ghent University
By studying how kingship was conceptualized by a large group of Christian subjects of Islamic rule (Syriac Orthodox, mid. 7th-10th c.), this project plugs a gap in current scholarship: it probes into how Christians adapted their tradition on kingship to accommodate Islamic kings and explores how this generated conditional acceptance of Islamic rule. Relying on the examination of a wide range of sources in many genres (exegesis, ...