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

Samir Khalil Samir, Jorgen Nielsen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Ledereinband/Edeleinband

268 Seiten

1994
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-09568-7 (ISBN)

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This collection of papers deals with a much-neglected experience of Arabic Christian writings at a time when Muslim and Christian thinkers were engaged in a lively intellectual encounter, which left deep marks on both parties.

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 b. ‘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.

Samir Khalil Samir sj, teaches at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, and the University of St. Joseph, Beirut. He has written extensively in the field of Arabic Christianity and co-edits the series Patrimoine Arabe Chretien. Jørgen S. Nielsen, has published in the fields of Islamic history and contemporary Christian-Muslim relations. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, UK.

CONTENTS
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Preface
Sydney H. Griffith, 'Faith and reason in Christian kalām: Theodore Abū Qurrah on Discerning the True Religion.'
Abdelmajid Charfi, 'La fonction historique de la polemique islamochretienne à l'époque 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 Abū Rā'itah.'
Emilio Platti, 'Yahyā b. 'Adī and his refutation of al-Warrāq'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 modern Christian-Muslim discussion in Egypt.'
Lucy-Anne Hunt, 'An exhibition of manuscripts from the A. Mingana Collection, Birmingham.

Reihe/Serie	Numen Book Series ; 63
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	627 g
Einbandart	Leinen
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-09568-3 / 9004095683
ISBN-13	978-90-04-09568-7 / 9789004095687
Zustand	Neuware