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

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09568-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Numen Book

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, Yah?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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in classical Arabic religious thought generally, and particularly Christian dogmatics, church history, and the history of Christian-Muslim relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khalil Samir, Samir

Nielsen, Jorgen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Apologetik, Kritik am Christentum
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Preface
Sydney H. Griffith, 'Faith and reason in Christian kalam: Theodore Abu 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 Abu Ra'itah.'
Emilio Platti, 'Yahya b. 'Adi and his refutation of al-Warraq'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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.