Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period, 750-1258
By: edited by Samir Khalil Samir and Jørgen S. Nielsen.
Contributors: Samir, Khalil.; Nielsen, Jørgen S.; Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam (1st : 1990 : Woodbrooke College)
Series: Studies in the history of religions,; v. 63; Studies in the history of religions ;; 63.
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses.; Christian literature, Arabic -- Congresses.; Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- Congresses.; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Congresses.; Middle East -- Church history -- Congresses.
Description: During the first six to 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 Abu Raitah, Yahya b.

Adi 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
English, French, and German.
Papers from a symposium on Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period, held at Woodbrooke College, Birmingham, England, May 24-28, 1990.