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Nestorians and other Christians under Islam
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Here are a few quotes from Christians themselves which I happened to read in Professor John Joseph's book(Muslim and Christian relations in the Middle East and inter Christian rivalries).

"The efforts made by the Byzantiums emperors and the Greek Orthodox church to surpress the Middle Eastern 'heresies' ended when the area was conquered by the Muslims, thus assuring the survival of Monophysites and Nestorians all the way to the present." (Page 10).

"The Arabs granted the Monophysites and the Nestorians civil recognition, which had been denied them under the Byzantines, thus paving the way for them to establish national Churches in Armenia, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt." (Page 10).

"The Middle Eastern Christians helped the Arabs and welcomed them as liberators from persecution. 'The hearts of the Christians rejoiced over the domination of the Arabs-may God strengthen it and propser it' wrote a Nestorian chronicle a few centuries after the Arab invasion".(Page 11).

"For the Monophysites of Egypt likewise, the Muslim concuest was a relief from persecution". Abu Salih the Armenian spoke of how the Arabs had humbled the Romans and taken possession of the land of Egypt, thus 'freeing the Jacobite Christians' from Roman tyranny". During the same period, a Jacobite patriarch of Antioch, Mchael the Syrian, saw the coming of the Arabs as an act of 'the God vengeance' to 'deliver us by them from the hands of the Romans- from their wickedness, from their anger, from their cruel zeal toward us and to find ourselves at rest'. The Jacobites of Edessa had welcomed the Muslims as deliverers from the active persecution that they had suffered at the hands of the Malkites".(Page 11).

"While Muslim rulers favored some Christian sects over others they did not try to distinguish between the different Christian sects on religous or theoligical grounds. They recognized the patriarchs of all denominations and granted them diplomas. The Syrians who remained loyal to the Greek Orthodoxy, and who were therefore politically suspect, received civil recognition by the Caliph just as the others." (Page 12).

These are only a few from the book.



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