The Patriarch and the Caliph: An Eighth-Century Dialogue Between Timothy I and Al-Mahdi by

The Patriarch and the Caliph: An Eighth-Century Dialogue Between Timothy I and Al-Mahdi

Eastern Christian Texts

with Wafik Nasry (Translator)

200 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion reflective medium-paced
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The Patriarch and the Caliph presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich de...

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