Along those lines:
From The Lost History of Christianity by J. P. Jenkins
(Timothy's church being the Nestorians.)
Harun al-Rashid was a contemporary of Charlesmagne. While Charles was chopping off the heads of recalcitrant Saxons at Verden the Abbasid caliphate was tending to be a bit more civilized.
From The Lost History of Christianity by J. P. Jenkins
Quote:Timothy’s church also had critical interactions with Islam, inevitably because for the past century and a half most Eastern Christians had lived under Muslim political power. Christians largely flourished under that authority, although subject to legal disadvantages. Timothy lived in a universe that was culturally and spiritually Christian but politically Muslim, and he coped quite comfortably with that situation. As faithful subjects, the patriarch and his clergy prayed for the caliph and his family. The catholicos was a key figure at the court of the Muslim caliph, and when the city of Seleucia itself went the way of ancient Babylon, fading into ruin in its turn, the caliphate moved its capital to Baghdad; and Timothy naturally followed. Most of his patriarchate coincided with the legendary caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, the era of the Arabian Nights.
(Timothy's church being the Nestorians.)
Harun al-Rashid was a contemporary of Charlesmagne. While Charles was chopping off the heads of recalcitrant Saxons at Verden the Abbasid caliphate was tending to be a bit more civilized.
