Proceedings of Annual International Conference Syiah Kuala University - Social Sciences Chapter
Vol 1 (2013)

The impact of socio-political developments on the Christians in the Middle East

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid (School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Oct 2013

Abstract

The subject of Christianity and Christians in the Middle East would seem to many be as oxymoronic as the topic of ‘Islam in the West’. While interest in Western-based Islam as faith-cum-political ideology and in Muslims as a distinctive polity has accelerated in line with global geo-political developments, relative ignorance regarding Christianity and Christians in the Middle East has been the norm rather than the exception. This paper is a modest attempt to redress the lack of attention hitherto given to Middle Eastern Christians as a multi-disciplinary research area.Keywords: Middle East, Christianity, Arab Christian, Eastern Christian, Muslim-Christian relations

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