03253oam 22006134a 450 991082506450332120240418022747.0(CKB)2550000000104515(MH)011786718-7(MiAaPQ)EBC3441605(EXLCZ)99255000000010451520080416d2009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierViolence and belief in late antiquity militant devotion in Christianity and Islam /Thomas Sizgorich[electronic resource]1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20091 online resource (viii, 398 p. )Divinations0-8122-4113-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index."The devil spoke from Scripture" : boundary maintenance and communal integrity in late antiquity -- "The living voice of kindred blood" : narrative, identity, and the primordial past -- "What has the pious in common with the impious?" : Ambrose, Libanius, and the problem of late antique religious violence -- "Are you Christians?" : violence, ascetics, and knowing one's own -- "Horsemen by day and monks by night" : narrative and community in Islamic late antiquity -- "The sword scrapes away transgressions" : ascetic praxis and communal boundaries in late antique Islam -- "Do you not fear God?" : the Khawarij in early Islamic society -- "This is a very filthy question and no one should discuss it" : the messy world of Ibn Ḥanbal.Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.Divinations.ViolenceReligious aspectsChristianityViolenceReligious aspectsIslamMartyrdomChristianityMartyrdomIslamIdentity (Psychology)Religious aspectsChristianityIdentity (Psychology)Religious aspectsIslamViolenceReligious aspectsChristianity.ViolenceReligious aspectsIslam.MartyrdomChristianity.MartyrdomIslam.Identity (Psychology)Religious aspectsChristianity.Identity (Psychology)Religious aspectsIslam.201/.7633209Sizgorich Thomas1685316DLCDLCBTCTABAKERYDXCPC#PBWXCDXBOOK9910825064503321Violence and belief in late antiquity4057370UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress