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Abstract: John M. Flannery, The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602‒1747), Studies in Christian Mission (43), Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2013, 286 pp., Index, ISBN: 9789004243828. Reviewed by Beatrice Nicolini: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, beatrice.nicolini@unicatt.it DOI 10.1515/islam-2016-0017 Der Islam 2016 93(1) Who were the Portuguese Augustinians? Why did they travel to Persia, Basra and to Georgia? How were their lives in the Orient? These are the immediate historical questions that this ample and interesting monograph study opens up to the reader. The complex interaction of religion and politics is the object of this well-documented survey. On December 16th of the year 1243, Pope Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi dei Conti di Lavagna, 1195‒1254) issued the bull Incumbit nobis calling on several eremitical communities in Tuscany to unite themselves into a single religious order with the Rule and way of life of St. Augustine. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2014: 0.189 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2014: 0.579 Impact per Publication (IPP) 2014: 0.105
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Abstract: John M. Flannery, The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602‒1747), Studies in Christian Mission (43), Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2013, 286 pp., Index, ISBN: 9789004243828. Reviewed by Beatrice Nicolini: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, beatrice.nicolini@unicatt.it DOI 10.1515/islam-2016-0017 Der Islam 2016 93(1) Who were the Portuguese Augustinians? Why did they travel to Persia, Basra and to Georgia? How were their lives in the Orient? These are the immediate historical questions that this ample and interesting monograph study opens up to the reader. The complex interaction of religion and politics is the object of this well-documented survey. On December 16th of the year 1243, Pope Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi dei Conti di Lavagna, 1195‒1254) issued the bull Incumbit nobis calling on several eremitical communities in Tuscany to unite themselves into a single religious order with the Rule and way of life of St. Augustine. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2014: 0.189 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2014: 0.579 Impact per Publication (IPP) 2014: 0.105
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Abstract: John M. Flannery, The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602‒1747), Studies in Christian Mission (43), Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2013, 286 pp., Index, ISBN: 9789004243828. Reviewed by Beatrice Nicolini: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, beatrice.nicolini@unicatt.it DOI 10.1515/islam-2016-0017 Der Islam 2016 93(1) Who were the Portuguese Augustinians? Why did they travel to Persia, Basra and to Georgia? How were their lives in the Orient? These are the immediate historical questions that this ample and interesting monograph study opens up to the reader. The complex interaction of religion and politics is the object of this well-documented survey. On December 16th of the year 1243, Pope Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi dei Conti di Lavagna, 1195‒1254) issued the bull Incumbit nobis calling on several eremitical communities in Tuscany to unite themselves into a single religious order with the Rule and way of life of St. Augustine. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2014: 0.189 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2014: 0.579 Impact per Publication (IPP) 2014: 0.105
Prof. Ph.D. Beatrice Nicolini
Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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