AU  - Fowden, Garth.
AU  - Fowden, Elizabeth Key, 
ED  - Centre de Recherches de L'Antiquite Grecque et Romaine.
TI  - Studies on Hellenism Christianity and the Umayyads
T2  - Meletemata
SN  - 9607905164
AV  - BR128.G8   F69 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Athenes
PB  - Diffusion de Boccard
KW  - Qusayr ʻAmrah (Jordan : Dwelling) 
KW  - Civilization, Islamic
KW  - Greek influences
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Influence
KW  - Roman influences
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - History
KW  - 661-750
KW  - Monasteries
KW  - History.
KW  - Syria
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Greek
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Hellenism
KW  - Umayyad dynasty
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Umayyad
KW  - Foreign influences
KW  - Jordan.
KW  - Greece
KW  - Civilization
N1  - At head of title " Kentron Hēllenikēs kai Rōmaīkēs Archaiotētos "; Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-213) and index; Part I. Hellenism and the Umayyads / by Garth Fowden -- 1. Quşayr 'Amra -- 2. Royal imagery -- 3. Bathing women and huntresses -- 4. Mythology and philosophy -- 5. Barbarians in the Bath -- Part 2. Christianity and the Umayyads / by Elizabeth Fey Fowden -- 6. Monks, monasteries and early Islam -- 7. Christian monasteries and Umayyad residences in late antique Syria
N2  - The present volume offers a partial presentation of research that has been prosecuted, in one form or another, over the past decade and more. Some early, misguided ideas about the relationship between Hellenism and the Umayyads as manifest in the paintings of Qusayr Arma appeared in chapter 6 of Garth Fowden, "Empire to commonwealth : Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity (1993) ; while in chapter 6 of "The Barbarian Plain : Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran" (1999), Elisabeth Key Fowden looked at the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Umayyad al Rusafa. A three-year grant from the "Aristeia" programme of the Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat for Research and Technology, within the European Union's 3rd Community Support Framework, has encouraged us to concentrate on specific aspects of these cultural interactions. A more rounded interpretation of the material, with due emphasis on the wider Islamic environment, will be published elsewhere.
ER  -