Medieval encounters : Arabic-speaking Christians and Islam / edited by Ayman S. Ibrahim

Uniform Title:: Medieval encounters (Gorgias Press)
Published:: Piscataway, NJ, USA : Gorgias Press, 2022.
Copyright Date:: ©2022
Physical Description:: xxxvii, 496 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Ibrahim, Ayman S., 1973-

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Gorgias handbooks ; v. 55.

Contents:

Preface / Alexander Treiger -- Why a volume on medieval Christian Arabic texts? / Ayman S. Ibrahim -- Arabic as Christian language and Arabic as the language of Christians / Jack B. Tannous -- Theodore Abū Qurrah (d. ca. 825) : natural religion and Islam / John C. Lamoreaux -- ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī (d. ca. 830) : an Arab exposition of the Christian faith / Mourad Takawi -- ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī (d. ca. 830) : on the path of God and discerning the true religion / Mourad Takawi -- Abū Rā'ṭa al-Takrītī (d. ca. 835) : a defender of the "people of truth" against Islam / Sandra T. Keating -- ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī (d. ca. 850) : an early systematic theologian in the Islamic context / Mark Beaumont -- ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī (d. ca. 850) : defending the incarnation of the Son of God / Mark Beaumont -- Severus ibn al-Muquffaʻ (d. after 987) : a coptic apologist, defending Christianity in Arabic / Mina Yousef -- Abū ʻAlī ʻĪsā ibn Isḥāq ibn Zurʻa (d. 1008) : a philosopher, apologist, and translator in the Islamic milieu / Clint Hackenburg -- Būluṣ ibn Rajā' (d. after 1012) : an Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity assesses Islam / David Bertaina -- Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Ṭayyib (d. 1043) : a scholar-priest explains the Trinitarian Persons / Michael F. Kuhn -- Elias of Nisibis (d. 1046) : a wise bishop encounters an inquisitive prime minister / Michael F. Kuhn.

Summary:

"A sourcebook of major Arabic Christian theologians and texts from the 9th-11th centuries. Christian authors who spoke and wrote Arabic had no choice but to engage with Islam and the complex realities of life-initially as a majority, later as a minority-under Muslim rule. They had to express their theology in new ways, polemicize against the claims of a new religion, as well as defend their doctrines against Islam's challenges"--

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ISBN:

9781463244477 paperback
1463244479 paperback

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

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