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

• Superior document: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 63
• Author: Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam; Samir Khalil Samir; Jorgen Nielsen (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Samir, Khalil.; Nielsen, Jørgen S.; Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam (1st : 1990 : Woodbrooke College),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages).
• Notes: Papers from a symposium on Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period, held at Woodbrooke College, Birmingham, England, May 24-28, 1990.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Faith and Reason in Christian Kalām: Theodore Abū Qurrah on Discerning the True Religion /; La fonction historique de la polémique islamochrétienne à l’époque abbasside /; The earliest Arab apology for Christianity (c. 750) /; The Cross of Christ in the earliest Arabic Melkite apologies /; The role of Jesus in intra-Muslim polemics in the first two Islamic centuries /; Der Begriff ṣifah bei Abū Rāʾiṭah /; Yaḥyā born ʿAdī and his refutation of al-Warrāq’s Treatise on the Trinity in relation to his other works /; Apologetic elements in Coptic-Arabic historiography: The Life of Afrahām ibn Zurʿah, 62nd Patriarch of Alexandria /; Christian Arabic literature from medieval Spain: An attempt at periodization /; The persistence of medieval themes in modern Christian-Muslim discussion in Egypt /; An exhibition of manuscripts from the A. Mingana Collection, Birmingham /; Contributors /; Index /; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004378855
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

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 developed. The papers in this volume represent the wide range of this field, including detailed studies of such key writers as Abū Rā’itah, Yaḥyā born ‘Adī and Theodore Abū Qūrrah, as well as probably the earliest, anonymous, Christian apology in Arabic. The Islamic context in which such writers worked is also dealt with, as is the wider geographical spread of Christian Arabic thought extending to Islamic Spain.