Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-ix

Notes on the Editors

pp x-xi

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

pp xii-xii

Note on Transliteration

pp xiii-xiii

Note on the Text

pp xiv-xvi

Foreword

pp 1-9

Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians

pp 10-46

Part I - Mobility, Networks and Protection

pp 47-48

1 - Eastern Christians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Catholic Europe

pp 49-89

2 - The Wasted Career of an Eastern Clergyman in Italy: Timothy Karnuk (Timoteo Agnellini), Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mardin

pp 90-104

3 - Security and Insecurity: Syrian Christians in the Mediterranean (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)

pp 105-123

4 - A Border-crossing Ottoman Christian at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: Ḥannā Diyāb of Aleppo and his Account of his Travel to Paris

pp 124-141

5 - The Migration of Middle Eastern Christians and European Protection: A Long History

pp 142-160

Part II - Building Confessional Identities: Entangled Histories

pp 161-162

6 - The Westernisation and Confessionalisation of Christians in the Middle East: An ‘Entangled History’ (‘Histoire Croisée’)

pp 163-181

7 - Polemic Dialogues between Christians and Muslims in the Seventeenth Century

pp 182-198

8 - From Religious to Secular Imagery? The Rise of the Image among Christians in Syria and Lebanon in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

pp 199-224

9 - Individualism and Political Modernity: Devout Catholic Women in Aleppo and Mount Lebanon between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries

pp 225-244

10 - Saint Charbel Makhlouf, or the Consecration of Maronite Identity

pp 245-263

Epilogue: The Maestro and his Music

pp 264-270

Complete Bibliography of Bernard Heyberger (December 2021)

pp 271-291

Bibliography

pp 292-322

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 323-328

Index

pp 329-351