The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

Lecture 23: The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm

Barber, Figure and Likeness.

Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests.

1. Discuss the ways Islam both threatened the Byzantine Empire politically
   and influenced it religiously.


2. How does the iconoclastic controversy reveal the deep tensions within
   Byzantine Christianity?

Suggested Reading

Questions to Consider