TY - JOUR

T1 - Христианство в доисламской Аравии

AU - Шагинян, Арсен Карапети

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - The article presents a detailed scientific overview of the ethnopolitical history, culture and religion of Arabia and the Semitic-speaking tribes and peoples who inhabited it since immemorial times until the genesis of Islam at the beginning of the 7th century. The article consists of two main sections. The first of them, “Judaism and the Triumph of Christianity in Southern Arabia”, is dedicated to the late ancient written civilization of settled farmers, the southern Semites of the Ḥimyarites, who around 800 BC created the South Arabian consonantal script of Musnad. In the second section, “Christianization of the kingdoms of the Byzantine and Sasanian Arabs”, we are talking about the nomadic West Semitic tribes of Northern and Central Arabia, who created proto-state formations near the borders of the largest powers of Western (Anterior) Asia, where the Arabic script in the 6th century AD acquired citizenship rights. The author clearly demonstrates the prevalence on the world’s largest peninsula in the 6th century of the teachings of Jesus Christ, including in the forms accused by the Ecumenical Church in 431 and 451 in heresy (Nestorianism or Dyophysitism and Miaphysitism/Monophysitism). The article is based on the dates of the authors of Antiquity, numerous monuments of epigraphy of the Ancient Near East — South Arabian, Proto-Arabic, Sasanian — biblical and Quranic stories, historical and hagiographic literature in the languages of the Christian and Muslim Middle East Arabic, Byzantine, and Middle Aramaic/Syriac. The achievements of modern science, which are reflected in the leading international academic and encyclopedic publications, are also taken by the author into account.

AB - The article presents a detailed scientific overview of the ethnopolitical history, culture and religion of Arabia and the Semitic-speaking tribes and peoples who inhabited it since immemorial times until the genesis of Islam at the beginning of the 7th century. The article consists of two main sections. The first of them, “Judaism and the Triumph of Christianity in Southern Arabia”, is dedicated to the late ancient written civilization of settled farmers, the southern Semites of the Ḥimyarites, who around 800 BC created the South Arabian consonantal script of Musnad. In the second section, “Christianization of the kingdoms of the Byzantine and Sasanian Arabs”, we are talking about the nomadic West Semitic tribes of Northern and Central Arabia, who created proto-state formations near the borders of the largest powers of Western (Anterior) Asia, where the Arabic script in the 6th century AD acquired citizenship rights. The author clearly demonstrates the prevalence on the world’s largest peninsula in the 6th century of the teachings of Jesus Christ, including in the forms accused by the Ecumenical Church in 431 and 451 in heresy (Nestorianism or Dyophysitism and Miaphysitism/Monophysitism). The article is based on the dates of the authors of Antiquity, numerous monuments of epigraphy of the Ancient Near East — South Arabian, Proto-Arabic, Sasanian — biblical and Quranic stories, historical and hagiographic literature in the languages of the Christian and Muslim Middle East Arabic, Byzantine, and Middle Aramaic/Syriac. The achievements of modern science, which are reflected in the leading international academic and encyclopedic publications, are also taken by the author into account.

KW - Abrahamic religions

KW - Early Christianity

KW - Ghassanids

KW - Kindites

KW - Lakhmids

KW - Miaphysitism

KW - Nestorianism

KW - pre-Islamic Arabia

KW - Ḥimyarites

UR - https://cmideast.ru/issue-2024-8-1

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/60104ac9-b568-3227-ae57-925e470d7e81/

U2 - 10.24412/2587-9316-2024-0010

DO - 10.24412/2587-9316-2024-0010

M3 - статья

VL - 8

SP - 5

EP - 21

JO - Christianity in the Middle East

JF - Christianity in the Middle East

SN - 2587-9316

IS - 1

ER -