Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period: (750 - 1258)Khalil Samir Samir, Jørgen S. Nielsen 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 Ab? R?'itah, Ya'y? b. 'Ad? and Theodore Ab? Q'rrah, 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. CONTENTS Jxrgen S. Nielsen, Preface Sydney H. Griffith, 'Faith and reason in Christian kal'm: Theodore Ab? Qurrah on Discerning the True Religion.' Abdelmajid Charfi, 'La fonction historique de la polemique islamochretienne l'ipoque abbasside.' Samir Khalil Samir, 'The earliest Arab apology for Christianity (c. 750).' Mark N. Swanson, 'The Cross of Christ in the earliest Arabic Melkite apologies.' Tarif Khalidi, 'The role of Jesus in intra-Muslim polemics in the first two Islamic centuries.' Harald Suermann, 'Der Begriff sifah bei Ab? R?'itah.' Emilio Platti, 'Yahy? b. 'Ad? and his refutation of al-Warr'q's Treatise on the Trinity in relation to his other works.' Johannes den Heijer, 'Apologetic elements in Coptic-Arabic historiography: The life of Afraham ibn Zur'ah, 62nd Patriarch of Alexandria.' P.Sj. van Koningsveld, 'Christian Arabic literature from medieval Spain: An attempt at periodization.' Hugh Goddard, 'The persistence of medieval themes in modernChristian-Muslim discussion in Egypt.' Lucy-Anne Hunt, 'An exhibition of manuscripts from the A. Mingana Collection, Birmingham.' |
Contents
La fonction historique de la polémique islamochrétienne | 44 |
The earliest Arab apology for Christianity c 750 | 57 |
The Cross of Christ in the earliest Arabic Melkite apolo | 115 |
The role of Jesus in intraMuslim polemics in the first | 146 |
Der Begriff şifah bei Abū Rāitah | 157 |
Yayḥā b Adi and his refutation of alWarraqs Treatise | 172 |
An | 203 |
The persistence of medieval themes in modern Christian | 225 |
An exhibition of manuscripts from the A Mingana Col | 238 |
List of Contributors | 245 |
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Abbasid Abū Īsā Abū Qurrah Abū Rā'ițah Adam Adī Afrahām Al-Andalus Al-Kindi al-Warraq al-zuhd Alphonse Mingana apologetic apologist Apology Arab Christian Arabic literature Arabic text argument Attribute Gottes Bāšā Begriff Beirut Biblical Cairo caliph century Chris Christ Christian apologetics Christian Arabic Christian Arabic literature church Coptic Creator cross Dick discussion divine doctrine edition Father GCAL Gibson God's Gospel Hafs human hypostases ibn Albar Icones idem Incarnation ISBN Islamic J.P. Migne John of Damascus kalām Khalil Samir Kitāb l'Islam literary Jesus manuscript Melkite Mingana Mu'tazilite Muḥammad Muslim musulmans mutakallimūn Nasrallah Nestorians Paris patriarch Personen Petit traité polemics polémique prophets quotes Qur'an Rā'iṭah refutation religious Samir Khalil scriptures substance Syriac theme Theodore Abū theology tion tradition Traité de l'existence translation treatise Trinity True Religion Umayyad word Yaḥya Zayd آدم أن إبليس الذي السماء الله المسيع الناس به على قال كان كل لا ولا