Christliche Stiftungen in Syrien und im Irak im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert als ein Element der Kontinuität zwischen Spätantike und Frühislam

Monks, dinars and date palms: hagiographical production and the expansion of monastic institutions in the early Islamic Persian Gulf

“…An expansion of monastic institutions in the Umayyad period, followed by a precipitous decline in monastic fortunes under the early Abbasids, is a pattern familiar from Egypt and other regions of the Near East (Pahlitzsch 2009; Key Fowden 2004; Delattre 2004: 55; Kahle 1954: 42; Godlewski 1986: 76–77). Early Muslims recognised the spiritual authority and accomplishments of monks, especially solitaries, which only the practitioners of jihād — sometimes itself conceptualised as a monasticism ( rahbāniyya ) — surpassed (Campbell 2009: 64–112; Key Fowden 2007).…”