The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs

The Mamluk epoch was a period of deep decline of the Christian East. In the conditions of permanent religious persecutions, the cult of saints and martyrs consolidated the Middle Eastern Greek Orthodox (Melkite) community and ensured its positive self-identification. There were a number of individua...

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Main Author: Konstantin Panchenko
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Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2022-12-01
Series:Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
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Online Access:https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/7990
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description The Mamluk epoch was a period of deep decline of the Christian East. In the conditions of permanent religious persecutions, the cult of saints and martyrs consolidated the Middle Eastern Greek Orthodox (Melkite) community and ensured its positive self-identification. There were a number of individual and collective martyrdoms among the Melkites during the 13th and 15th centuries. This martyrology includes mass victims of the wars between the Muslims and the Crusaders, anti-Christian pogroms and trials as well as local spiritual and secular Christian leaders like Yaqub al-Hamaturi or Rizkallah ibn Nabaa, and even voluntary martyrs. At the same time the cultural decline of the Melkites of the late Medieval period, extinction of their literature activity caused weakening of collective memory and rapid lose of information about many confessors and martyrs of that epoch. The bulk of the martyrs of the Mamluk period had been already forgotten to the late 16th century and were discovered only by current scholars. The article studies as the facts of the late Medieval Melkite martyrdoms so the nature of the historical memory of the Middle Eastern Orthodox community in the Mamluk and Early Ottoman time.
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spelling doaj-art-3f0b64e28ccd42aaa49f4a7123406c7b2025-08-20T02:08:07ZrusSt. Tikhon's Orthodox UniversityВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология1991-64852409-48972022-12-0173737183http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturIII202273.71-832The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabsKonstantin Panchenko0Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University; 11 Mokhovaia str., Moscow 103911, Russian FederationThe Mamluk epoch was a period of deep decline of the Christian East. In the conditions of permanent religious persecutions, the cult of saints and martyrs consolidated the Middle Eastern Greek Orthodox (Melkite) community and ensured its positive self-identification. There were a number of individual and collective martyrdoms among the Melkites during the 13th and 15th centuries. This martyrology includes mass victims of the wars between the Muslims and the Crusaders, anti-Christian pogroms and trials as well as local spiritual and secular Christian leaders like Yaqub al-Hamaturi or Rizkallah ibn Nabaa, and even voluntary martyrs. At the same time the cultural decline of the Melkites of the late Medieval period, extinction of their literature activity caused weakening of collective memory and rapid lose of information about many confessors and martyrs of that epoch. The bulk of the martyrs of the Mamluk period had been already forgotten to the late 16th century and were discovered only by current scholars. The article studies as the facts of the late Medieval Melkite martyrdoms so the nature of the historical memory of the Middle Eastern Orthodox community in the Mamluk and Early Ottoman time.https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/7990the christian east the sultanate of mamluks the greek orthodox arab community (the melkites) religious persecutions the cult of saints neomartyrs the historical memoryхристианский восток мамлюкский султанат православные арабы (мелькиты) религиозные гонения культ святых новомученики историческая память
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The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
the christian east
the sultanate of mamluks
the greek orthodox arab community (the melkites)
religious persecutions
the cult of saints
neomartyrs
the historical memory
христианский восток
мамлюкский султанат
православные арабы (мелькиты)
религиозные гонения
культ святых
новомученики
историческая память
title The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
title_full The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
title_fullStr The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
title_full_unstemmed The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
title_short The Melkite martyrs of the Mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
title_sort melkite martyrs of the mamluk epoch and historical memory of the orthodox arabs
topic the christian east
the sultanate of mamluks
the greek orthodox arab community (the melkites)
religious persecutions
the cult of saints
neomartyrs
the historical memory
христианский восток
мамлюкский султанат
православные арабы (мелькиты)
религиозные гонения
культ святых
новомученики
историческая память
url https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/7990
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