Christians at the heart of Islamic rule : church life and scholarship in Abbasid Iraq / edited by David Thomas.

Format:

• Book
• Conference/Event

Contributor:

• Thomas, David (David Richard), 1948-

Conference Name:

• Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (4th : 2001 : Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)

Series:

• History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 1.
• The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 1570-7350 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christianity and other religions--Islam--Congresses.
• Islam--Relations--Christianity--Congresses.
• Iraq--Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work covers aspects of Christian life in and around Baghdad in the early centuries of 'Abbasid rule. It explores both broad themes, such as the place of monasteries in Muslim cultural life, accusations of Islam as crypto-adolatry, and Muslim responses to Christian apologetic arguments.

Contents:

• Contents; Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Muslims as crypto-idolaters-a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East; Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyārāt Books; Habib ibn Khidma Abū Rā'ita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III); 'Ammār al-Basri on the Incarnation; The Christian al-Ma'mūn Tradition; Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wādi Natrūn: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period
• The 'Philosophical Life' in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahyā Ibn 'Adi's Kitāb tahdhib al-akhlāqYahyā Ibn 'Adi and the Theory of Iktisāb; Language and thought in Kitāb al-majdal, bāb 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa; The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on the Gospels; The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth-eighth/fourteenth centuries); A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary
• Early Muslim Responses to ChristianityBibliography; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-280-46717-7
• 9786610467174
• 1-4175-3897-X
• 90-474-0191-3

OCLC:

191039335