Christian and Muslim Dialogues : : The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic Middle East / / David Bertaina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bertaina, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)

Linked by a common geography and claim to the true religion, Christians and Muslims had a long history of interreligious discourse up to the Crusades. These faith communities composed texts in the form of dialogues in light of their encounters with one another. This book surveys the development of the genre and how dialogues determined he patterns of conversation. Each chapter highlights a thematic feature of the literary form, demonstrating that Christian and Muslim authors did not part ways in the first century of Islamic rule, but rather continued a dialogue commending God’s faithful believers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. DIALOGUE AS CHRISTOLOGICAL DEBATE -- 2. DIALOGUE AS DIVINE EXEGESIS: THE CASE OF THE QUR’AN -- 3. DIALOGUE AS CONQUEST AND CONVERSION -- 4. DIALOGUE AS COMPETING HISTORIOGRAPHIES -- 5. DIALOGUE AS THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND DIALECTIC -- 6. DIALOGUE AS HAGIOGRAPHY -- 7. DIALOGUE AS SCRIPTURAL REINTERPRETATION -- 8. THE END OF DIALOGUE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX