The beginnings of Christian theology in Arabic : Muslim-Christian encounters in the early Islamic period / Sidney H. Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Sidney Harrison.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS746.

Collected studies

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--Christian authors--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam.

Arabic literature--Christian authors.

Physical Description:

1 volume (in various pagings) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002.

Language Note:

English with some Arabic text.

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.

Contents:

I Comparative Religion in the Apologetics of the First Christian Arabic Theologians (Proceedings of the PMR Conference 4. Villanova, PA, 1979) 63

II Habib ibn Hidmah Abu Rat'itah, a Christian mutakallim of the First Abbasid Century (Oriens Christianus 64. Wiesbaden, 1980) 161

III 'Ammar al-Basri's Kitab al-Burhan: Christian Kalam in the First Abbasid Century (Le Museon 96. Louvain, 1983) 145

IV The Apologetic Treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis (ARAM 3. Oxford, 1991) 115

V Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian Texts: From Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286) (Religionsgesprache im Mittelalter, ed. Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewohner, Wolfenbutteler Mittelalter-Studien 4. Wiesbaden, 1992) 251

VI Muslim and Church Councils; the Apology of Theodore Abu Qurrah (Studia Patristica 25. Louvain, 1993) 270

VII Muhammad and the Monk Bahira: Reflections on a Syriac and Arabic Text from Early Abbasid Times (Oriens Christianus 79. Wiesbaden, 1995) 146

VIII The Kitab Misbah al-Aql of Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa': A Profile of the Christian Creed in Arabic in Tenth Century Egypt (Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 2 Leiden, 1996) 15

IX The Muslim Philosopher al-Kindi and his Christian Readers: Three Arab Christian Texts on 'The Dissipation of Sorrows' (Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78. Manchester, 1996) 111

X From Aramaic to Arabic: The Languages of the Monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods (Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51. Dumbarton Oaks, 1997) 11

XI Bashir/Beser: Boon Companion of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III; the Islamic Recension of his Story in Leiden Oriental MS 951 (2) (Le Museon 103. Louvain, 1990) 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

086078889X

OCLC:

49531212