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Le désert d’al-Ḥīra revisité

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With nearly fifty monasteries and sites of anachoreses, the desert of al-Ḥīra in Mesopotamia, in a frontier position between Empires, was really a Thebaid. This study traces its development and tra...
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  • 20 August 2026
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With nearly fifty monasteries and sites of anachoreses, the desert of al-Ḥīra in Mesopotamia, in a frontier position between Empires, was really a Thebaid. This study traces its development and traditions over almost six centuries. The material gathered, in dialogue with archaeological data, makes it possible to identify the various movements that took root there and to offer an in-depth analysis of this monastic community in its interactions with the Persian, Syriac, and Arabic milieux. From this vast fresco the memory of a multifaceted monastic centre, both attractive and dynamic, emerges, which played an essential role in anchoring Christianity in the Middle East.

Avec une cinquantaine de monastères et de sites d’anachorèse, le désert d’al-Ḥīra, à la croisée des Empires, fut une véritable Thébaïde. Cette étude en retrace les développements et les traditions sur près de six siècles. Les matériaux réunis, en dialogue avec les données de l’archéologie, permettent d’identifier les différents courants qui s’y déployèrent, et de proposer une radioscopie des communautés dans leurs interactions avec les milieux perse, syriaque et arabe. De cette vaste fresque émerge la mémoire d’un pôle monastique aux multiples facettes, à la fois attractif et dynamique, dont le rôle fut essentiel dans l’ancrage du christianisme au Moyen-Orient.
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Price: $201.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity
Publication Date: 20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004757950
Format: Hardcover
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Florence Jullien, Dr. Habil. (2007), CNRS, is an historian in the field of Syriac Christianity and Eastern monasticism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. She has extensively published, including Le monachisme en Perse (2008). Her research focuses also on intercultural transmissions, religious controversies and historical representation.