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.

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.

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.