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Heirs of the Apostles is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Arabic-speaking Christian communities, offered to Sidney H. Griffith on his eightieth birthday.
About the author
David Bertaina, Ph.D. (2007), Catholic University of America, is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His teaching expertise is on Late Antiquity and the Medieval Middle East and his research focuses on the history of Christian-Muslim encounters.
Sandra Keating, Ph.D. (2001), Catholic University of America, is Associate Professor at Providence College. She is the author of
Defending the 'People of Truth' in the Early Islamic Period: The Christian Apologies of Abū Rā'iṭah (Brill 2006).
Mark N. Swanson, Doctor in Arabic and Islamic Studies (1992), PISAI, Rome, is professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. His publications include
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (AUC Press 2010).
Alexander Treiger, Ph.D. (2008), Yale University, is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He is editor of the series
Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies (Brill) and co-editor of
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources (2014).
