Seeing Islam as Others Saw It

Seeing Islam as Others Saw It

Infobox Book
name = Seeing Islam as Others Saw It


image_caption = Book cover and spine
author = Robert G. Hoyland
country = United States
language = English
series = Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
subject = Islamic Empire--History--622-661--Historiography.
Islamic Empire--History--661-750--Historiography.
Middle East--Civilization--To 622--Historiography.
publisher = Darwin Press
release_date = 1997
media_type = Hardcover
pages = 872
isbn = ISBN 0878501258

"Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam" from the Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam series is a book by scholar of the Middle East Robert G. Hoyland.

The book contains an extensive collection of Greek, Syrian, Coptic, Armenian, Latin, Jewish, Persian, and Chinese primary sources written between 620 and 780 AD in the Middle East, which provides a survey of eyewitness accounts of historical events during the formative period of Islam.

The book presents the evidenciary text of over 120 seventh century manuscripts, some of which, such as the Doctrina Jacobi and The Maronite Chronicles are at variance with traditional Islamic accounts of the origins of Islam, for example Thomas the Presbyter describes events taking place two years after the traditional date for the death of Muhammad::In the year 945, indiction 7, on Friday 7 February (634) at the ninth hour, there was a battle between the Romans and the Arabs of Muhammad (tayyaye d-Mhmt) in Palestine twelve miles east of Gaza. The Romans fled, leaving behind the patrician bryrdn, whom the Arabs killed. Some 4000 poor villagers of Palestine were killed there, Christians, Jews and Samaritans. The Arabs ravaged the whole region.

According to Michael G. Morony, Hoyland emphasizes the parallels between Muslim and non-Muslim accounts of history emphasizing that non-Muslim texts often explain the same history as the Muslim ones even though they were recorded earlier. He concludes "Hoyland's treatment of the materials is judicious, honest, complex, and extremely useful." [Michael G. Morony. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28199908%2931%3A3%3C452%3ASIAOSI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O International Journal of Middle East Studies] , Vol. 31, No. 3. (Aug., 1999), pp. 452-453]

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Greek Sources

* A Christian Apologist of 634
* John Moschus
* Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem
* Pope Martin I
* Maximus the Confessor
* Anti-Jewish Polemicists of the Seventh Century
* The Miracles of S. Demetrius and S. George
* Anastasius of Sinai
* Patriarch Germanus
* Cosmas of Jerusalem
* Stephen the Sabaite
* John the Eremopolite
* A Greek-Coptic Papyrus
* Berlin Papyrus no. 10677
* Timothy the Stylite

West Syrian, Coptic and Armenian Sources

* Fragment on the Arab Conquests
* Thomas the Presbyter
* Homily on the Child Saints of Babylon
* Gabriel of Qartmin
* Sebeos, Bishop of the Bagratunis
* Benjamin I, Patriarch of Alexandria
* A Maronite Chronicler
* George of Resh'aina
* Daniel, Bishop of Edessa
* Athanasius of Balad, Patriarch of Antioch
* Isaac, Patriarch of Alexandria
* John, Bishop of Nikiu
* Theodotus of Amida
* Jacob of Edessa
* Zacharias, Bishop of Sakha
* Simeon of the Olives
* A Coptic Papyrus
* Theophilus of Alexandria
* A Letter of Bishop Jonah

East Syrian Sources

* Isho'yahb III of Adiabene
* A Chronicler of Khuzistan
* Rabban Hormizd
* George I
* John bar Penkaye
* Hnanisho' the Exegete
* John of Daylam
* Isho'bokht, Metropolitan of Fars
* The Abbots of the Convent of Sabrisho'
* Isho'dnah of Basra
* Thomas of Marga

Latin Sources

* Fredegar, a Frankish Chronicler
* Arculf
* Willibald
* Later Testimonia
* Historia miscella
* Morienus the Greek

Chinese Sources

* T'ung tien
* The Official T'ang History
* Ts'e-fu yuan-kuei

Apocalypses and Visions

yriac Texts

* Ps.-Ephraem
* Ps.-Methodius
* The Edessene Ps.-Methodius and John the Little
* Bahira
* Ps.-Ezra
* Copto-Arabic Texts
* Ps.-Shenute
* Ps.-Athanasius
* Samuel of Qalamoun and Pisentius of Qift
* Coptic Daniel, XIV Vision
* Arabic Apocalypse of Peter/Book of the Rolls

Greek Texts

* Ps.-Methodius, Greek Translation
* Greek Daniel, First Vision
* The Vision of Enoch the Just
* Stephen of Alexandria
* The Andreas Salos Apocalypse

Hebrew Texts

* The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai
* Pesiqta rabbati
* The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer
* Jewish Apocalypse on the Umayyads
* Signs of the Messiah
* On That Day
* A Judaeo-Byzantine Daniel

Persian Texts

* Bahman yasht
* Jamasp namag
* Bundahishn
* Denkard
* A Pahlavi Ballad on the End of Times
* The Prophecy of Rostam
* A Judaeo-Persian Daniel

Muslim Arabic Texts

* Signs of the Hour
* `Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and the Mahdi
* Tiberius, Son of Justinian
* An Apocalyptic Chronicle

Martyrologies

Greek Texts

* Sixty Martyrs of Gaza
* George the Black
* A Christian Arab of Sinai
* Peter of Capitolias
* Sixty Pilgrims in Jerusalem
* Elias of Damascus
* Romanus the Neomartyr
* Copto-Arabic Texts
* Menas the Monk
* Thomas, Bishop of Damascus

Armenian Texts

* David of Dwin
* Vahan

yriac Texts

* Michael the Sabaite
* `Abd al-Masih al-Najrani al-Ghassani
* A Muslim at Diospolis

Chronicles and Histories

yriac Texts

* Theophilus of Edessa and the Syriac
* The Zuqnin Chronicler
* The Ehnesh Inscription
* Dionysius of Tellmahre
* The Chronicles of 819 and 846
* Elias of Nisibis

Latin Texts

*Byzantine-Arab Chronicle of 741
*Hispanic Chronicle of 754

Greek Texts

* Theophanes the Confessor
* Patriarch Nicephorus
* A Short Chronology ad annum 818
* Armenian Texts
* Christian Arabic Texts
* Agapius, Bishop of Manbij
* Eutychius of Alexandria
* The Chronicle of Siirt
* The History of the Patriarchs
* Jewish Texts
* Samaritan Texts
* Derivative Accounts

Apologies and Disputations

yriac Texts

* Patriarch John I and an Arab Commander
* A Monk of Beth Hale and an Arab Notable
* Timothy I
* Bahira
* Greek Texts
* John of Damascus
* The Correspondence of Leo III
* and `Umar II

Christian Arabic Texts

* Fi tathlith Allah al-wahid
* Papyrus Schott Reinhard no. 438
* Masa'il wa-ajwiba `aqliya wa-ilahiya

Jewish Texts

* The Ten Wise Jews
* Targum Ps.-Jonathan

Persian Texts

Latin Texts

* Istoria de Mahomet
* Tultusceptru de libro domni Metobii
* John the Stylite
* Abjuration
* Ms. Mingana 184

References

ee also

Islamic studies by author


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