Download or read book An Early Christian Reaction to Islam written by Iskandar Bcheiry and published by Gorgias Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. An important and contemporary source of the state of the Christian Church at this time is to be found in the correspondence of the patriarch of the Church of the East, Isū'yahb III (649-659), which he wrote between 628 and 658. This books discusses Isū'yahb's view of and attitudes toward the Muslim Arabs.