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ajiss-1162	Johnston, David	Christian and Muslim Dialogues: The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic Middle East By David Bertaina (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011. 285 pages.)	2013.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1123	38	49	34-36): the Melkites (the ex-Byzantine, Orthodox Christians who later lived under Islamic rule), the Jacobites (the Coptic and Syriac-speaking Christians of “West Syria”), and the “Church of the East” (the Nestorians who had lived in the Sasanian Empire). In the third chapter (“Dialogue as Conquest and Conversion”), Bertaina argues that although Christians were not dramatically affected by the sweeping Muslim conquests and the campaigns of Islamization did not start till the end of the Umayyad period (without yielding many conversions until the next cen- tury), Christian dialogues of the period reveal a noticeable anxiety about con- versions.	cache/ajiss-1162.pdf	txt/ajiss-1162.txt