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Arab Orthodox Christians under the Ottomans: 1516–1831. By Constantin A. Panchenko. Trans. Brittany Pheiffer Nobel and Samuel Noble. (Foreword His Beatitude Patriarch John x of Antioch and All the East.) Pp. xi + 688 incl. 25 colour and black-and-white ills and 3 colour maps. Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Seminary Press, 2016. $29.95. 978 5 91674 226 8
This book presents a comprehensive and encyclopedic overview of the early modern history of Christians in the Arabic Levant, namely in the Orthodox patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem. Endorsed by a preface by the current patriarch of Antioch, it is a translation from the Russian and was originally published in 2012. The author is a renowned expert on the history of Middle Eastern Christianity. Unlike other recent scholarship on the topic, his...