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wrote "Dalrymple, a decidedly learned sort who allows that at Cambridge I spent my final year specializing in the study of Hiberno-Saxon art," has a zeal for ecclesiastical arcana that occasionally blinds him to the limits of what might interest the general reader. ("Scholars believe that work
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produced in the Tur Abdin may well once have provided the inspiration for the very first figurative Christian art in Britain," he enthuses.) But this passion is leavened by his dark sense of humor and talent as a journalist.
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congregations scattered in the Middle East to their ancient origins; it also deals with the question of how they have fared over centuries of Islamic rule and the complex relationship of
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at the monastery of Deir ul-Muharraq which had just been attacked by the
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which is just at the end of its civil war, after which he crosses into
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who traveled through the eastern Byzantine world, culminating at
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Dalrymple's journey in the footsteps of Moschos starts from
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
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Index


William Dalrymple
ISBN
978-0143031086
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
William Dalrymple
Eastern Christians
Eastern Orthodox
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Middle East
Marco Polo
Jerusalem
Mongolia
John Moschos
Constantinople
Spiritual Meadow
factional violence
Mount Athos
Greece
Istanbul
Turkey
Syria
Lebanon
Israel
Egypt
Gemaat al-Islamiyya
The New York Times

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