Early Muslim Syria Chapter Summary

Damascus had long been a center of Christianity before it became the capital of the Umayyad caliphate. The author shows the transformation from the late antiquity to the Islamic culture through analyzing different historical written texts and the images of early Muslim Syria. This book contains four chapters, the first chapter form an introduction about the social and cultural history of the early medieval world and Islamic Syria, while the later chapters discuss the impacts of Byzantine world on literature, religion, architectures, etc. of the early Islam. The author concludes that the change in Syria is a merge of social and cultural practices of Byzantine-Christian and Arab-Muslim but not one civilization replaced by another one.

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