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Christians at the heart of Islamic rule : church life and scholarship in ʻAbbasid Iraq / edited by David Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (4th : 2001 : Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)
- Series:
- History of Christian-Muslim relations (Leiden, Netherlands) 1570-7350 ; v. 1.
- The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 1570-7350 ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history.
- Iraq--Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
- Iraq.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam--Congresses.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity--Congresses.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Contents:
- Muslims as crypto-idolaters
- a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East / Barbara Roggema 1
- Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyarat Books / Hilary Kilpatrick 19
- Habib ibn Khidma Abu Raita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III) / Sandra Toenies Keating 39
- Ammar al-Basri on the Incarnation / Mark Beaumont 55
- The Christian al-Mamun Tradition / Mark N. Swanson 63
- Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wadi Natrun: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the Abbasid Period / Lucy-Anne Hunt 93
- The 'Philosophical Life' in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahya Ibn Adi's Kitab tahdhib al-akhlaq / Sidney Griffith 129
- Yahya Ibn Adi and the Theory of Iktisab / Emilio Platti 151
- Language and thought in Kitab al-majdal, bab 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa / Bo Holmberg 159
- The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on the Gospels / Julian Faultless 177
- The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth-eighth/fourteenth centuries) / Martin Accad 199
- A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary / Gabriel Said Reynolds 215
- Early Muslim Responses to Christianity / David Thomas 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004129383
- OCLC:
- 51978109
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