Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity - Transformation of the Classical Heritage - Walter D. Ward - Books - University of California Press - 9780520283770 - December 17, 2014
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Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity - Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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Examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called Saracens.


224 pages, 3 figures, 5 maps

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 17, 2014
ISBN13 9780520283770
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 224
Dimensions 151 × 237 × 19 mm   ·   496 g
Language English  

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