The Maronites in History

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In making known the history of his people, Moosa brings the past to light for students and scholars of Christianity and the Middle East. This book offers hope for a community struggling to come to meaningful terms with itself in the midst of cultural upheaval.

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Publication Date: Jun 1,2005

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Page Count: 404

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The Maronites in History addresses what author Matti Moosa identifies as a Maronite crisis of identity in the Lebanese cultural context. Offering a historical perspective on the whole of Maronite heritage and culture, Moosa seeks to tell the relatively unknown story of one branch of the Syriac Christian tradition. In making known the history of his people, Moosa brings the past to light for students and scholars of the history of Christianity and the Middle East, and offers hope in troubled times for a community struggling to come to meaningful terms with itself in the midst of cultural upheaval.

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	Contributor	Biography
	MattiMoosa	Matti Moosa, a native of Mosul, Iraq, and an American citizen since 1965, held a Law degree from Baghdad Law School, Iraq, a United Nations Diploma of Merit from the University of Wales in Swansea, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Middle Eastern history and culture from Columbia University in New York City. His publications include The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction, 1983, 2nd ed., (1997) The Maronites in History (1986), translated into Arabic under the title Al-Mawarina fi al-Tarikh (Damascus, 2004), Extremist Shiites: the Ghulat Sects (1988); The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt (1994); The Crusades: Conflict between Christendom and Islam (2008) and many other translated books. He has also contributed numerous articles on Middle Eastern history and culture to leading periodicals. Dr Moosa passed away in 2014.

Preface
Introduction
Origin of the Term Maronite
The Identity of the Ascetic Marun
The Monastery of Marun
Earliest Sources on the Monastery of Marun
Maronite Claims and Sixth-Century Epistolary Documents
The Council of Constantinople of A.D. 536 and the Letter of the Monks of Syria Secunda to Pope Hormisda
The Maronites and Saint Simon the Stylite
Peter the Fuller and the Trisagion Dispute
Signatories to the Letters of the Monks to Pope Hormisda and Related Documents from the Council
The Maronites and the Letters of the Monks from Syria Secunda
Were the Monks of the Monastery of Marun Chalcedonians?
Heraclius and the Monothelitic Formula of Faith
The Malkites, the Maronites, and the Sixth Council
Establishment of the Maronites as a Separate Church
Who is John Marun?
John Marun: Was He a Patriarch of Antioch?
John Marun's Writings
Was John Marun a Canonized Saint?
The Relation of the Maronites to the Mardaites and the Jarajima
The Maronites and Monothelitic
The Relations of the Maronites to the Church of Rome
The Mission of Fra Gryphon and Other Franciscans to the Maronites
The Mission of Giovanni Battista Eliano to the Maronites
The Mission of Jerome Dandini to the Maronites
The Latinization of the Maronite Church
The Maronites in Modern Time

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