The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period

by Griffith,Sidney H.

• ISBN13: 9780860788898
• ISBN10: 086078889X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Comparative Religion in the Apologetics of the First Christian Arabic Theologians	63	(98)
Proceedings of the PMR Conference 4. Villanova, PA, 1979
Habib ibn Hidmah Abu Rat'itah, a Christian mutakallim of the First Abbasid Century	161
Oriens Christianus 64. Wiesbaden, 1980
`Ammar al-Basri's Kitab al-Burhan: Christian Kalam in the First Abbasid Century	145
Le Museon 96. Louvain, 1983
The Apologetic Treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis	115	(136)
ARAM 3. Oxford, 1991
Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian Texts: From Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286)	251	(19)
Religionsgesprache im Mittelalter, ed. Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewohner, Wolfenbutteler Mittelalter-Studien 4. Wiesbaden, 1992
Muslim and Church Councils; the Apology of Theodore Abu Qurrah	270
Studia Patristica 25. Louvain, 1993
Muhammad and the Monk Bahira: Reflections on a Syriac and Arabic Text from Early Abbasid Times	146
Oriens Christianus 79. Wiesbaden, 1995
The Kitab Misbah al-Aql of Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa': A Profile of the Christian	15	(96)
Creed in Arabic in Tenth Century Egypt Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 2 Leiden, 1996
The Muslim Philosopher al-Kindi and his Christian Readers: Three Arab Christian Texts on `The Dissipation of Sorrows'	111
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78. Manchester, 1996
From Aramaic to Arabic: The Languages of the Monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods	11	(282)
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51. Dumbarton Oaks, 1997
Bashir/Beser: Boon Companion of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III; the Islamic Recension of his Story in Leiden Oriental MS 951 (2)	293
Le Museon 103. Louvain, 1990
Index	1