The Christian heritage of Iraq
Subtitle: collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq Seminar Days, 2004-2008
By: edited by Erica C.D. Hunter.
Contributors: Hunter, Erica C. D.
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian studies -- 13
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng; syr
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Christianity -- Iraq -- Congresses; Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- Iraq -- Congresses; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Iraq -- Congresses; Iraq -- Church history -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "This volume presents a selection of papers given at the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days that have been held annually at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies since 2004."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Foreword / by His Grace Louis Sako, Chaldæan Archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq; title: Iraqi Christians should remain in their land to uphold their millennial multi-heritage; title: The Patriarch Itoyahb III and the Christians of Qatar in the first Islamic century / John Healey; title: Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in early Abbasid Iraq / John Watt; title: Patriarch Timothy and an aristotelian at the Caliph's court / Sidney Griffith; title: The great monastery at Mount Izla and the defence of the East-Syrian identity / Florence Jullien; title: The cultural contribution of monasticism in Iraq / Sebastian Brock; title: Der mir Behnam, the Monastery of Saint Behnam / Suha Rassam; title: The Syriac Bible in Central Asia / Mark Dickens; title: Prester John's realm : new light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan / Alexei Savchenko; title: Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Bikek, Kkirghizstan / Wassilios Klein; title: Chaldæans and Assyrians : the church of the East in the Ottoman period / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg; title: Commemorating church history in the Ottoman era : monumental inscriptions and art / Amir Harrak; title: Magic and medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan / Erica Hunter; title: World War I and the Assyrians / Martin Tamcke; title: The Syriac Bible in the private Assyrian schools in Iraq / Robin Bet Shmuel; title: The neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq / Geoffrey Khan; title: Christianity in Iraq : modern history, theology, dialogue, and politics (until 2003) / Anthony O'Mahony.