The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic
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The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic

Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period

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The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic

Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period

About this book

The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian 'ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040233177
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. I: Comparative Religion in the Apologetics of the First Christian Arabic Theologians
  9. II: Habib ibn Hidmah Abu Rat’itah, a Christian mutakallim of the First Abbasid Century
  10. III: ‘Ammar al-Basri’s Kitab al-Burhan: Christian Kalam in the First Abbasid Century
  11. IV: The Apologetic Treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis
  12. V: Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian Texts: From Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286)
  13. VI: Muslim and Church Councils; the Apology of Theodore Abu Qurrah
  14. VII: Muhammad and the Monk Bahira: Reflections on a Syriac and Arabic Text from Early Abbasid Times
  15. VIII: The Kitab Misbah al-Aql of Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa‘: A Profile of the Christian Creed in Arabic in Tenth Century Egypt
  16. IX: The Muslim Philosopher al-Kindi and his Christian Readers: Three Arab Christian Texts on ‘The Dissipation of Sorrows’
  17. X: From Aramaic to Arabic: The Languages of the Monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
  18. XI: Bashir/Beser: Boon Companion of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III; the Islamic Recension of his Story in Leiden Oriental MS 951 (2)
  19. Index