Christian and Muslims in Dialogue in the Islamic Orient of the middle ages

Christians and Muslims in Dialogue in the Islamic Orient of the Middle Ages

Martin Tamcke

Since the early Islamic times, Christian theologians and thinkers dis­cussed with Muslim rulers and thinkers the burning issues of the two encountering theologies from different perspectives, in different contexts and in different times. The leading researchers in this field discussed the theological dialogue between the Christians and the Muslims mainly in the first centuries of their coexistence. The contri­butions give a deep insight on the argumentations, the issues, the mentalities of these texts, known to us in the Syriac and Arabic tradi­tion, and discusses at the present level of research questions related to the dating of the different texts, apologetical structures and philosophical backgrounds.

Language(s): English
ISBN: 9783899136111
2008, Softcover 210 pages

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Martin Tamcke

Vorn Dialog, interreligios and intrareligiOs:
zwei syrische Lieder zur Konversion——————————————– 9

I. DIALOGUE IN SYRIAN LITERNFURE

DIALOG IN DER SYRTSCHEN LITERATUTZ———————————- 1 9

Barbara Rnggcma
The debate between Patriarch John and an Emir of the Alhaggrayé:
a reconsideration ofthe earliest Christian-Muslim debate…………………………………. 21

Martin Heimgartner
Die Disputatio des ostsyrischen Patriarchen Tirnotheos (780-823)
mit dem Aralifen al-Ma hill………………………………………………………………………..-………. 41

Gerrit J. Reinink
Bible and Qur’ein in early Syriac Christian-Islamic disputation—————— 57

II. THEOLOGY IN DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM

THEOLOGlE IM GESPRACH MIT DEM ISLAM——————————— 73

Sidney H. Griffith
From Patriarch Timothy I to Ifunayn ibn
philosophy and Christian apology in Abbasid times;
reason, ethics and public policy…………………………………………………………………………… 75

John W. Witt
Christianity in the renaissance of Islam.
Aba Bishr Matta, al-Farabi and Yaloid Jim cAdi ……………………………………………….. 99

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Marc N. Swanson
Apologetics, catechesis and the question of audience in
“On The Triune Nature Of God” (Sinai Arabic 154)
and three treatises of Theodore Abed Qurrah———————————– 113

III. SEPARATIONS
ABGRENZUNGEN……………………………………………………………………………………………… 135

David Thomas
ibn Rabban al-Ttbari; A convert’s assessment of his former fltith…………………….. 137

Herman Teule
Iso tyahb bar Malkon’s treatise on the veneration of the holy icons————- 157

Rifaat Ehied
Prejudice and polarization towards Christians, Jews and Muslims:
“The. Polemical Treatise” of Dionysius Bar Salibi——————————- 171

IV. SIDEWAYS —————————————————————- 185

Andrew Palmer
John Bar ,:ayall(th and the Syrian Orthodox community under
Aqquyunlu rule in the late fifteen century————————————– 187

Martin Tamcke
Inaugural Address———————————————————— 207