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The Church Fathers · c. 630–658
The Letters
Isho'yahb III · d. 659
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What it is
The correspondence of a patriarch governing his church through the Arab conquest, including complaints that Christians in Oman were abandoning the faith over a tax.
Why it lasted
A first-hand record of how an eastern church experienced the coming of Islam — as a change of administration rather than a catastrophe.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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