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From the Holy Mountain A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Paperback • 1999 • English

From the Holy Mountain A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

By William Dalrymple

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About the book

In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings ...Show more

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9780805061772

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

From the Holy Mountain A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Format

Paperback

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