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John of Damascus and Islam : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations / by Peter Schadler.
Van Pelt Library BR1720.J59 S33 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schadler, Peter, 1979- author.
- Series:
- History of Christian-Muslim relations (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 34.
- History of Christian-Muslim relations, 1570-7350 ; volume 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- John, of Damascus, Saint.
- John.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Christian heresies.
- Interfaith relations.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 264 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
- Summary:
- How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term heresy persisted among Christians, and then demonstrates that John's assessment of the beliefs and practices of Muslims has been mistakenly dismissed on assumptions he was highly biased. The practices and beliefs John ascribes to Islam have analogues in the Islamic tradition, proving that John may well represent an accurate picture of Islam as he knew it in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria and Palestine.
- Contents:
- 1 Heresy and Heresiology in Late Antiquity 20
- Problems in Associating Islam with Heresy 22
- Manichaeism: The Exception that Proves the Rule 26
- Heresy as Opposition to the Church 28
- Other Understandings of Heresy in Late Antiquity 32
- Early Christian Use of Heresiology 36
- The Demonic Nature of Heresy 39
- Heresy as the Result of Philosophical Speculation 42
- Other Typical Traits of Heresiology 47
- 2 Aspects of the Intellectual Background 49
- The Encyclopedism of Christian Palestine 49
- Heresiology as History? 56
- The Sociological Imperative to Institution Building as a Force for Islam's Inclusion 63
- From Heresiology to Panarion and from Panarion to Anacephalaeosis: The Shifting Nature of Heresiology 65
- John of Damascus and non-Christian Philosophy 75
- The Definition of Heresy in John's Works 82
- Demons and the Heresiology of John 93
- 3 The Life of John of Damascus, His Use of the Qur'an, and the Quality of His Knowledge of Islam 97
- The Life of John of Damascus 98
- John of Damascus and Arabic 102
- The Qur'an and its Apparent Use Among Christians 110
- John of Damascus and the Qur'an 113
- Anastasius of Sinai and the Qur'an 119
- The Alleged Leo-'Umar Correspondence 124
- Lives of the Prophets and Other Sources 132
- 4 Islamic and Para-Islamic Traditions 141
- Scholarly Accounts of Early Islam 142
- Revisionist Islamic Studies and its Antecedents 144
- Contemporary Islamic Studies 147
- John of Damascus, the Black Stone, and the Ka'ba 150
- The Ka'ba, the Black Stone, and the Maqam Ibrahim in the Islamic Tradition 151
- An Untraditional Perspective 155
- The Damascene's Observations Given the Untraditional Perspective 159
- Rivers in Paradise 160
- The Monk and an-Nasara 166
- Female Circumcision 173
- Pillars of Faith 178
- 5 John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam 182
- Problems Authenticating Abu Qurrah's Greek Corpus 185
- Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam 192
- Theodore, the Qur'an, and Muhammad 194
- The Arian Monk 197
- Theodore and Heresy 199
- Abu Qurrah and John of Damascus: Some Differences and Conclusions 204.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schadler, Peter, 1979- author. John of Damascus and Islam
- ISBN:
- 9789004349650
- 9004349650
- OCLC:
- 1001942080
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