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Christian Arabic Apologetics During the Abbasid Period, 750 1258

During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic. In the process their thinking developed. The papers in this volume represent the wide range of this field, including detailed studies of such key writers as Ab? Ra'itah, Ya'y? b. 'Ad? and Theodore Abu Qurrah, as well as probably the earliest, anonymous, Christian apology in Arabic. The Islamic context in which such writers worked is also dealt with, as is the wider geographical spread of Christian Arabic thought extending to Islamic Spain. CONTENTS Jorgen S. Nielsen, Preface Sydney H. Griffith, 'Faith and reason in Christian kal'm: Theodore Abu Qurrah on Discerning the True Religion.' Abdelmajid Charfi, 'La fonction historique de la polemique islamochretienne l'ipoque abbasside.' Samir Khalil Samir, 'The earliest Arab apology for Christianity (c. 750).' Mark N. Swanson, 'The Cross of Christ in the earliest Arabic Melkite apologies.' Tarif Khalidi, 'The role of Jesus in intra-Muslim polemics in the first two Islamic centurie

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