Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750-1258).

Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750-1258).

During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic. In the process their thinking develop...

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Main Author: Samir Khalil Samir; Jorgen Nielsen (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1994.

Series: Numen Book Series 63.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses.
Christian literature, Arabic > Congresses.
Christianity and other religions > Islam > Congresses.
Islam > Relations > Christianity > Congresses.

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Call Number: BR1070 .C48 1994

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen S. Nielsen
  • Faith and Reason in Christian Kalām: Theodore Abū Qurrah on Discerning the True Religion /
  • Sidney H. Griffith
  • La fonction historique de la polémique islamochrétienne à l'époque abbasside /
  • Abdelmajid Charfi
  • The earliest Arab apology for Christianity (c. 750) /
  • Samir Khalil Samir S.J.
  • The Cross of Christ in the earliest Arabic Melkite apologies /
  • Mark N. Swanson
  • The role of Jesus in intra-Muslim polemics in the first two Islamic centuries /
  • Tarif Khalidi
  • Der Begriff ṣifah bei Abū Rāʾiṭah /
  • Harald Suermann
  • Yaḥyā born ʿAdī and his refutation of al-Warrāq's Treatise on the Trinity in relation to his other works /
  • Emilio Platti
  • Apologetic elements in Coptic-Arabic historiography: The Life of Afrahām ibn Zurʿah, 62nd Patriarch of Alexandria /
  • Johannes den Heijer
  • Christian Arabic literature from medieval Spain: An attempt at periodization /
  • P.Sj. van Koningsveld
  • The persistence of medieval themes in modern Christian-Muslim discussion in Egypt /
  • Hugh Goddard
  • An exhibition of manuscripts from the A. Mingana Collection, Birmingham /
  • Lucy-Anne Hunt
  • Contributors /
  • Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen S. Nielsen
  • Index /
  • Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen S. Nielsen
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /
  • Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen S. Nielsen.