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Seven - Letters from the Edge

Mapping Pseudo-Arabic between Byzantium and the Near East

from II - Images, Objects, Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2024

By
Alicia Walker
Edited by
Elizabeth S. Bolman ,
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson  and
Jack Tannous
Elizabeth S. Bolman
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Jack Tannous
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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Summary

The pseudo-Arabic motifs found in middle Byzantine religious structures in Greece, especially at the tenth- to eleventh-century monastery complex of Hosios Loukas, document an awareness of Arab-Christian communities in the “Near East,” especially religious foundations of the Holy Land that were among the most revered centers of early monasticism. A variety of Christian portable objects inscribed with Arabic and pseudo-Arabic – including manuscripts, icons, and liturgical vessels and furnishings – offer possible vehicles for the dissemination of Arabic as a Christian language and for Arabic and pseudo-Arabic inscriptions as signs of ancient monastic authority. Networks of communication between the Byzantine Empire and regions of the south-eastern Mediterranean (that were under Islamic political hegemony) facilitated the movement of people, things, and ideas. Tracing the dissemination of the visual culture of Arab-Christianity generates a revised map of middle Byzantine artistic and cultural connections, challenging Constantinople’s status as the dominant model for middle Byzantine art and central source of Orthodox Christian authority and identity.

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Hosios Loukaspseudo-Arabicpseudo-KuficArab-Christianmiddle Byzantine architectureMonastery of St. Catherine at SinaiportabilityMelkiteChalcedonian Christiancenter/periphery
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Worlds of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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