Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16935-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 787 g

Reihe: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God's relationship with it. They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief, building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity. Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi' al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-Baqillani and 'Abd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious attention as a rival to Islam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Muslim Theologians and Christian Doctrines
Al-Nashi' al-Akbar
The refutation Christianity from al-Nashi'’s Fi al-Maqalat
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
The refutation of Christianity from al-Maturidi’s Kitab al-tawhid
Abu Bakr al-Baqillani
The refutation of Christianity from al-Baqillani’s Kitab al-tamhid
'Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad al-Hamadhani
The refutation of Christianity from 'Abd al-Jabbar’s Al-mughni fi abwab al-tawhid wa-al 'adl
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Thomas, Ph.D. (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Christian-Muslim relations including Christian-Muslim Polemic during the Crusades (Brill, 2005).