The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque : Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam / Sidney H. Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Sidney Harrison

Series:

Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture--Arab countries--History.

Christianity and culture.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History.

Islam.

Arab countries--Church history.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an? The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque is the first book-length discussion in English of the cultural and intellectual life of such Christians indigenous to the Islamic world. Sidney Griffith offers an engaging overview of their initial reactions to the religious challenges they faced, the development of a new mode of presenting Christian doctrine as liturgical texts in their own languages gave way to Arabic, the Christian role in the philosophical life of early Baghdad, and the maturing of distinctive Oriental Christian denominations in this context. Offering a fuller understanding of the rise of Islam in its early years from the perspective of contemporary non-Muslims, this book reminds us that there is much to learn from the works of people who seriously engaged Muslims in their own world so long ago.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

Introduction

I. "People of the Gospel," "People of the Book": Christians and Christianity in the World of Islam

II. Apocalypse and the Arabs: The First Christian Responses to the Challenge of Islam

III. Christian Theology in Arabic: A New Development in Church Life

IV. The Shape of Christian Theology in Arabic: The Genres and Strategies of Christian Discourse in the World of Islam

V. Christian Philosophy in Baghdad and Beyond: A Major Partner in the Development of Classical Islamic Intellectual Culture

VI. What Has Baghdad to Do with Constantinople or Rome?: Oriental Christian Self-Definition in the World of Islam

VII. Between the Crescent and the Cross: Convivencia, the Clash of Theologies, and Interreligious Dialogue

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-212) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9786612936104

9781282936102

1282936107

9781400834020

1400834023

OCLC:

692156951