Christian and Muslim dialogues
Subtitle: the religious uses of a literary form in the early Islamic Middle East
By: David Bertaina
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian studies -- 29; Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies -- 29.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781611439205; 9781617199417
Subjects: Islamic literature; Religious aspects; Interreligiöse Beziehung; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Christliche Literatur; Dialog; Christianity and other religions; History; Dialogue; Christentum; Christian literature; History and criticism; Early Christian literature; Islamische Literatur; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dialogue as christological debate; title: Dialogue as divine exegesis: the case of the Qurʼan; title: Dialogue as conquest and conversion; title: Dialogue as competing historiographies; title: Dialogue as theological education and dialectic; title: Dialogue as hagiography; title: Dialogue as scriptural reinterpretation; title: The end of dialogue?