Michael Philip Penn
Michael Philip Penn (born August 24, 1970 ) is an American scholar of religion .
Life
He earned an AB (Molecular Biology) from Princeton University in 1993 and a Ph.D. (Religious Studies) from Duke University in 1999. He teaches as Teresa Hinh Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University .
A specialist in the history of early Christianity, he focuses on Christians in the Middle East who wrote in the Aramaic dialect of Syrian.
Fonts (selection)
- Kissing Christians. Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church . Philadelphia 2005, ISBN 0-8122-3880-X .
- When Christians first met Muslims. A sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam . Oakland 2015, ISBN 0-520-28494-1 .
- Envisioning Islam. Syriac Christians and the early Muslim world . Philadelphia 2015, ISBN 0-8122-4722-1 .
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| SURNAME | Penn, Michael Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Penn, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scholar of religion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1970 |