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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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 63 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 1994. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Numen Book Series
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| 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. |
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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.