Bertaina Christian and Muslim Dialogues

The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic Middle East
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1934-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 297 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies

Linked by a common geography and claim to the true religion, Christians and Muslims had a long history of interreligious discourse up to the Crusades. These faith communities composed texts in the form of dialogues in light of their encounters with one another. This book surveys the development of the genre and how dialogues determined he patterns of conversation. Each chapter highlights a thematic feature of the literary form, demonstrating that Christian and Muslim authors did not part ways in the first century of Islamic rule, but rather continued a dialogue commending God’s faithful believers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertaina, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- list of illustrations (page 7)
- Preface (page 9)
- Acknowledgments (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- Theoretical Problems and Definitions of Dialogue (page 13)
- The Historiographical Problem and the Lived Experience of Dialogue (page 17)
- The Literary Form (page 20)
- Book Structure (page 24)
- 1 Dialogue as Christological Debate (page 31)
- Origins (page 31)
- Dialogue and Christology in the Bible (page 35)
- The Melkites, Jacobites, and Church of the East (page 42)
- Dialogue and Christology in Late Antiquity (page 48)
- Conclusion (page 53)
- 2 Dialogue as Divine Exegesis: The Case of the Qur'an (page 57)
- Reading the Qur'an as Dialogue (page 57)
- The Qur'an's Use of Dialogue (page 63)
- The Qur'an's Christian Audience (page 65)
- Dialogues With Christians in the Qur'an (page 73)
- Conclusion (page 81)
- 3 Dialogue as Conquest and Conversion (page 85)
- Conditions for Christian Dialogue in the Aftermath of the Islamic Conquest (page 86)
- Conditions for Early Muslim Dialogue with Christians (page 95)
- John of Sedra and the Muslim Emir (page 99)
- Ali and the Byzantine Monk (page 106)
- Ali and the Patriarch (page 111)
- Ali and the Bishop of Najran (page 116)
- Conclusion (page 118)
- 4 Dialogue as Competing Historiographies (page 121)
- Muhammad and the Christians of Najran (page 127)
- The Islamic Bahira and Muhammad (page 132)
- The Christian Sergius-Bahira and Muhammad (page 136)
- Conclusion (page 142)
- 5 Dialogue as Theological Education and Dialectic (page 145)
- A Christian Monk of Bet Hale and an Arab Notable (page 150)
- Patriarch Timothy and Caliph al-Mahdi (page 157)
- Imam al-Rida and the Arab Christians (page 171)
- Conclusion (page 177)
- 6 Dialogue as Hagiography (page 179)
- Wasil of Damascus and the Byzantine Leaders (page 181)
- Hisham Ibn a-Hakam and the Patriarch Bariha (page 187)
- Imam Musa al-Kazim and the Monk and Nun Ofnajran (page 191)
- Theodore Abu Qurra Against the Outsiders (page 194)
- Conclusion (page 202)
- 7 Dialogue as Scriptural Reinterpretation (page 205)
- Imam al-Rida and the Patriarch (page 207)
- Abraham of Tiberias and Abd al-Rahman al-Hashimi (page 211)
- Theodore Abu Qurra and Caliph al-Ma'mun (page 224)
- Conclusion (page 240)
- 8 The End of Dialogue? (page 243)
- Elias of Nisibis and George the Monk (page 243)
- Significant Themes of Christian Dialogues (page 248)
- Significant Themes of Muslim Dialogues (page 253)
- From Creation to Collation (page 257)
- Bibliography (page 261)
- Index (page 288)