Contested Coexistence: Insights on Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration

Proceedings from the Summer School "Arabic Christianity: History, Culture, Language, Theology, Liturgy" (Münster, July 18–August 12, 2016)

Vasile-Octavian Mihoc, Ryann Craig, Vasile-Octavian Mihoc, Ryann Craig

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783447390361
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict

The theological discourse of Arab Christianity is characterized by a self-evident consideration of religious difference. In the constant cultural and religious exchange a specific Christian identity developed, which is not conceivable without Islamic influences and challenges. When in the middle of the 9th century Islam reached its classical form, also the Christian-Arab theology in its characteristic forms began to flourish in the new lingua franca et sacra in the House of Islam. The present anthology offers insights into various aspects of Arab Christianity from its early confrontations with Islam to the present day, such as: the early Christian reactions to rising Islam; translations of liturgical texts among the Melkites; theological education and religious practice among Eastern Syrian Christians in Qatar; comparative Christology among different Arab theologians; the medieval Islamic Kalam; inter-religious pilgrimage in late antiquity; pilgrims and administrators of holy sites in the Holy Land in the 14th century and the history of the Holy Land in the 19th century; Poetic lamentation among neo-Aramaic speaking Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq; Christian mission in contemporary Lebanon; mystical traditions in an inter-religious comparative perspective; migration and inter-religious dialogue in Germany; resilience strategies among Syrian refugees; and finally contemporary inter-religious coexistence in the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. Their common ground lies in the cultural and religious encounters between Christians and Muslims from different times and places. The title of the present volume alludes to the fact that the contributions differ in their topics, areas and methods.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Titelseiten
• Contents
• Preface
• Ryann Elizabeth Craig: Muslims and Syriac Confessional Concerns: An Analysis of Jacob of Edessa’s Response to Islam
• Ionuţ Daniel Băncilă: Introducing a New Religion: Narrative Strategies in the Presentation of Islam in Early Copto-Arabic Historiography
• Martin Lüstraeten: Stages in the History of the Arabic Translation of the Byzantine Rite
• Martin Tamcke: The Relationship between Theological Teaching and Religious Practice among the East-Syrian Christians in Qatar (6th –7th centuries)
• Bishara Ebeid: Arab-Christian Theologies in Dialogue: Comparative Analysis of the Doctrines of the Melkite Saʿīd Ibn Baṭrīq, the Copt Sawīrus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, and the Nestorian Elias of Nisibis
• Youssef Madrari: Some Aspects of the Rivalry between Aristotelian Philosophers and Islamic Speculative Theologians in Medieval Islam
• Ovidiu Ioan: Interreligiöses Pilgerwesen im Orient der Spätantike unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ostsyrischen Kirche
• Jon Paul Heyne: Pilgrims, Custodians, and the Eastern Churches: Variable Christian Relations Surrounding the Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Foundation in the Holy Land
• Shawqi Talia: Lamentations in Neo-Aramaic Durekyāthā of Northern Iraq
• Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina: Metropolitan George Khodr of Mount Lebanon. A Life of Mission and Dialogue
• Robin Flack: A Comparative Theological Approach to Asceticism: An exemplary case with Evagrius Ponticus and al-Muḥāsibī
• Werner Kahl: Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Relatives Within the Same Monotheistic Family
• Önver A. Çetrez: Exiled, Extorted but still Undaunted: Resilience among Syrian Refugees in Resettlement
• Jan Gehm: Koexistenz in der autonomen Region Kurdistan, Nordirak Christen, Jesiden und Muslime zwischen den Fronten in Irakisch-Kurdistan. Verortungen und Erfahrungen
• Biographies