Religious origins of nations? : the Christian communities of the Middle East / edited by Bas ter Haar Romeny.

Proceedings of a symposium held at the castle Oud Poelgeest near Leiden, Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The formation of a command identity among West Syrian Christians : results and conclusions of the Leiden Project / Bas ter Haar Romeny, Naures Atto, Jan J. van Ginkel, Mat Immerzeel, Bas Snelders -- Family matters : community, ethnicity, and multiculturalism / Willem Hofster -- The Psalm commentary of Daniel of Salah and the formation of sixth-century Syrian Orthodox identity / David G.K. Taylor -- Syriac historiography and identity formation / Muriel Debié -- Michael the Syrian and Syriac Orthodox identity / Dorthea Weltecke -- Iconography and identity : Syrian elements in the art of Crusader Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Art and identity in an amulet roll from fourteenth-century Trebizond / Glenn Peers

Reflections on identity : the Suryoye of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : Bar Salibi, Bar Shakko, and Barhebraeus / Herman Teule -- Seeking justice among the "outsiders" : Christian recourse to non-ecclesiastical judicial systems under early Islam / Uriel Simonsohn -- Tradition and the formation of the "Nestorian" identity in sixth- to seventh-century Iraq / Gerrit J. Reinink -- The formation of Armenian identity in the first millenium / Theo Maarten van Lint -- The Copts : "modern sons of the Pharaohs'? / Jacques van der Vliet -- Dominance and diversity : kingship, ethnicity, and Christianity in Orthodox Ethiopia / Steven Kaplan -- The development of a Chalcedonian identity in Byzantium (451-553) / Richard Price -- Epilogue: Religious origins of nations? / Bas ter Haar Romeny.