1. Introduction / 2. The development of the Melkite Church to the Arab conquests / 3. The situation of the Melkite Church in the first centuries of Islam (634–750) / 4. Melkites in the Centralized and Disintegrating Abbāsid Caliphate 750–969 / 5. Conclusions
Krzysztof Kościelniak is Professor of the History of the Middle East, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.