..., it is with respect to Paul that Chrysostom expresses this feeling most clearly. When he contemplates the city of Rome, where the relics of Paul were housed, his ardor is notable. “Would that it were now given me to throw myself around the body of Paul and be riveted to the tomb, and to see the dust of that body...

... through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Early Islam hagiography relics tombs sectarian communities In one widely attested report, a brief description of Ṭalḥa's death and burial during the Battle...