TY - BOOK AU - Feodorov,Ioana AU - Heyberger,Bernard AU - Noble,Samuel AU - هيبرجي، برنار TI - Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe T2 - Arabic Christianity : texts and studies SN - 978-90-04-46326-4 U1 - 298.7091741 23A PY - 2021/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill N2 - This volume sheds light on the historical background and political circumstances which encouraged the dialogue between Eastern-European Christians and Arabic-speaking Christians of the Middle East in Ottoman times, as well as the means employed in pursuing this dialogue for several centuries. The ties that connected Eastern European Christianity with Arabic-speaking Christians in the 16th-19th centuries are the focus of this book. Contributors address the Arabic-speaking hierarchs' and scholars' connections with patriarchs and rulers of Constantinople, the Romanian Principalities, Kyiv, and the Tsardom of Moscow, the circulation of literature, models, iconography, and knowhow between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and research dedicated to them by Eastern European scholars ER -