John of Damascus and Islam : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations /

John of Damascus and Islam : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations /

How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the t...

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Main Author: Schadler, Peter, 1979-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 34.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

Subjects:

John, > of Damascus, Saint.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christian heresies.

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Call Number: BR1720.J59

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Heresy and Heresiology in Late Antiquity
  • Aspects of the Intellectual Background
  • The Life of John of Damascus, His Use of the Qurʾan, and the Quality of His Knowledge of Islam
  • Islamic and Para-Islamic Traditions
  • John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam
  • Conclusion.