John of Damascus and Islam : : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations / / by Peter Schadler.
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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| Superior document: | History of Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 34 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Christian-Muslim relations ;
Volume 34. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 pages). |
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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.