Christian doctrines in Islamic theology
By: By David Thomas.
Series: History of Christian-Muslim relations -- v. 10
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789004169357
Subjects: Bible -- Islamic interpretations; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Islam; Christianity -- Influence
Description: "By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God's relationship with it. They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief, building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity. Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi' al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-Baqillani and ʿAbd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious attention as a rival to Islam."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muslim theologians and Christian doctrines; title: Al-Nashiʻ al-Akbar; title: Abu Mansur al-Maturidi; title: Abu Bakr al-Baqillani; title: ʻAbd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad al-Hamadhani.