TY - JOUR
AU - Papaconstantinou, Arietta
AB - Book Re vie ws 1517 the establishment of Christianity, the second in the imperial capital and elsewhere in the Caliphate in the ninth to eleventh centuries. There will be further turns of the spiral subsequently in Europe—in the twelfth century, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Fowden’s book should perhaps be viewed as a Manifesto for Historical Intellectualism. It also fires a salvo at those who take the prophetic utterances of Muhammad to have caused a rupture in Middle Eastern and world history. Islam, a religion without priestcraft, in which the worshipper is subjected to an infinitely remote, ahuman, omniscient, omnipotent deity, a religion peculiarly suited to the harsh world of Arabia, is returned to the fold of familiar Mediterranean and Mesopotamian faiths. JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON doi:10.1093/ehr/cev289 University of Oxford BOOK REVIEW Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad, by Fergus Millar (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. xxi + 178. £40). The outcome of Fergus Millar’s Schweich Lectures in Biblical Archaeology, delivered in 2010 at the British Academy, this book offers an amazingly wide-ranging image of the groups inhabiting ‘the Roman Near East’ in late antiquity, with particular attention given not only to the Syriac sources, but 
TI - Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East: Constantine to Muhammad, by Fergus Millar
JO - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/cev274
DA - 2015-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/religion-language-and-community-in-the-roman-near-east-constantine-to-1ofb0MHnlX
SP - 1517
EP - 1518
VL - 130
IS - 547
DP - DeepDyve
ER -