Christian Monasteries and Umayyad Residences in Late Antique Syria

Authors

  • Elizabeth Key Fowden

Abstract

Medieval Arabic writers often mention Christian monasteries, either recalling their former glory, or describing them as places still visited by Muslims. Among recent scholars there is a tendency to dismiss this as the ‘cliché of the monastery’. In an effort to re-evaluate the role of monasteries in both pre-Islamic and Muslim Greater Syria, the present article examines the physical and literary evidence for sites that were occupied by both monasteries and later by Umayyad residences (

qusu$r) —Qasr al-・ayr al Gharbı$, Qasr Burqu‘, al-Faddayn, Qasr al-・alla$ba$t and al-Rusa$fa— underlining the social and political levels at which both monasteries and qusu$r operated.

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Author Biography

Elizabeth Key Fowden

Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity

National Research Foundation, Athens, Greece

Published
02-07-2004
How to Cite
Key Fowden, E. (2004). Christian Monasteries and Umayyad Residences in Late Antique Syria. Antigüedad y Cristianismo, (21), 565–581. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/ayc/article/view/53251
Issue
No. 21 (2004): Sacrality and archeology: tribute to Professor Thilo Ulbert
Section
Historiography

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