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"The book greatly contributes to our understanding of Abbasid era politics and the situation of religious minorities."鈥擴sman Butt, The New Arab

"Wood鈥檚 careful, fine-grained analysis of Dionysius and his world provides a fascinating glimpse at one Christian community in the Abbasid caliphate."鈥擩ohn Tolan, The Journal of Religion

鈥淭he debate about how Jews and Christians parted ways is here extended to Christians and Muslims. By introducing us to Dionysius of Tel-Mahre and his dealings with the early Abbasid elite, Philip Wood describes how Christian hierarchs and intellectuals subtly adapted early Islamic norms of language and conduct. This is an intriguing and readable account, nourished by deep erudition, of a Middle Eastern world in which Muslims and Christians were still capable of learning from each other.鈥濃�擥arth Fowden, University of Cambridge

鈥淭his is an excellent book that will cement Philip Wood鈥檚 reputation as one of the leading commentators on the Christian churches of the early caliphate. Using Dionysius of Tel-Mahre as a guiding thread, the book provides a new history of the Jacobite Church and opens up a much wider vista on Muslim-诲丑颈尘尘墨 relations in the transition from the ancient to the medieval Middle East.鈥濃�擯hil Booth, University of Oxford

鈥淚n this well-researched and thoughtful book, Wood reveals to us some neglected aspects of the Islamic Empire at its height through the eyes of the little-known figure of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, head of the Jacobite Christians of Syria and Iraq in the early ninth century, who successfully held his own as a Christian leader in an increasingly Muslim-dominated world.鈥濃�擱obert G. Hoyland, New York University

鈥淭he relationship between Christian communities and the Muslims and their caliphs in the early Islamic period has inspired a new wave of innovative scholarship in recent years. Wood has been at the forefront of this and in his latest book he develops a fascinating account of the great ninth-century patriarch, Dionysius, and his relationship with the caliph al-Ma鈥檓un. Firmly based in the Arabic and Syriac sources, this book is a major contribution to the study of confessional and cultural interactions between Christians and Muslims in this formative period.鈥濃�擧ugh N. Kennedy, SOAS University of London