• Chiara Barbati - Vittorio Berti (eds.)

Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Period

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Chiara  Barbati
is Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa

Vittorio Berti
is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Padua


It is by now widely acknowledged that between late antiquity and the first centuries of Islam, Syriac-speaking Christian communities were more than just scattered minority communities with little impact in geographical areas strongly shaped by the Iranian element. “Iranianate and Syriac Christianity” bridges across different specialized disciplines, first and foremost Iranian Studies and Syriac Studies and the History of Christianity, and assembles a range of authoritative voices on the subject. The 14 contributions are arranged in two sections: Mission, Conversion and Power and Languages, Texts and Concepts, representing a wide range of approaches and reflecting the complexity of the religious, political and cultural history of the Christian communities in the Eurasian area up to the year 1000 and beyond.

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Es besteht inzwischen weithin Konsens, dass die syrischsprachigen, christlichen Gemeinschaften in der Spätantike und den ersten Jahrhunderten des Islam mehr waren als nur verstreute Minderheitengemeinschaften, die in geografischen Gebieten, die stark vom iranischen Element geprägt waren, nur geringen Einfluss gehabt hätten. „Iranianate and Syriac Christianity“ schlägt eine Brücke zwischen verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen, vor allem der Iranistik, der Syriazistik und der Geschichte des Christentums, und versammelt eine Reihe maßgeblicher Stimmen zu diesem Thema. Die 14 Beiträge sind in zwei Abschnitte gegliedert: Mission, Bekehrung und Macht sowie Sprachen, Texte und Konzepte. Sie repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Ansätzen und spiegeln die Komplexität der religiösen, politischen und kulturellen Geschichte der christlichen Gemeinschaften im eurasischen Raum bis zum Jahr 1000 und darüber hinaus wider.

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In the Shade of a Tree. Holy Figures and Prodigious Trees in Late-Antique and Medieval NW Iran and Adjacent Areas

    Camilla Insom, Gianfilippo Terribili

Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Period, pp. 333-366, 2021/12/21

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the narrative motif of prodigious trees and their association with holy figures, whether prophets, saints, religious founders or divine being, in areas of cross-cultural contact between Eastern-Christianity and Iran during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The theme is explored in its development and through the leading phenomenological patterns it took on, gathering evidence from different periods and traditions. This kind of comparative analysis appears crucial for an understanding of complex networks of socio-cultural dynamics in a context where culturally dominant religions (including Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam) came into contact with the local communities, re-shaping the sac-red landscape, and eventually elaborating narrative motifs attuned to the native sensibility. This assimilation/adaptation process left traces in the literary output of the dominant traditions, while contributing to the formation of religious groups that developed in later centuries. Representative case stu-dies will define the transversal and cross-cultural use of the “prodigious tree” motif. Indeed, on the strength of the evidence we will be able to appreciate the balance between rhetorical-narrative devices and socio-religious realities in the perspective of the fabrication of communal memories, awareness and sacred landscapes.