Shabushti's Book of Monasteries

The venerable work of Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Shabushti (d. c. 1000), "e;The Book of Monasteries,"e; has come to hold an acclaimed status among scholars of early Arabic Christianity. Thoroughly annotated and cross-referenced, this Arabic edition by George Awwad is more than simply a catalogue of monasteries, it is a view into the culture of early Christianity as it developed in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and...