"This volume presents a selection of papers given at the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days that have been held at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies since 2004"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Foreword / by His Grace Louis Sako, Chaldµan Archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq -- Iraqi Christians should remain in their land to uphold their millennial multi-heritage -- The Patriarch Iéso°yahb III and the Christians of Qatar in the first Islamic century / John Healey -- Greek philosophy and Syriac culture in early °Abbasid Iraq / John Watt -- Patriarch Timothy and an aristotelian at the Caliph's court / Sidney Griffith -- The great monastery at Mount Izla and the defence of the East Syriac identity / Florence Jullien -- The cultural contribution of monasticism in Iraq / Sebastian Brock -- Der måar Behnam, the Monastery of Saint Behnam / Suha Rassam -- The Syriac Bible in Central Asia / Mark Dickens -- Prester John's realm : new light on Christianity between Merv and Turfan / Alexei Savchenko and Mark Dickens -- Syriac inscriptions from Tokmak and Biéskek, Kirghizstan / Wassilios Klein -- Chaldµans and Assyrians : the church of the East in the Ottoman period / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg -- Commemorating church history in the Ottoman era : monumental inscriptions and art / Amir Harrak -- Magic and medicine amongst the Christians of Kurdistan / Erica Hunter -- World War I and the Assyrians / Martin Tamcke -- The Syriac Bible in the private Assyrian schools in Iraq / Robin Bet Shmuel -- The neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq / Geoffrey Khan -- Christianity in Iraq : modern history, theology, dialogue and politics (until 2003) / Anthony O'Mahony.