Christians at the heart of islamic rule : church life and scholarship in 'abbasid iraq.

Christians at the heart of islamic rule : church life and scholarship in 'abbasid iraq.

This work covers aspects of Christian life in and around Baghdad in the early centuries of 'Abbasid rule. It explores both broad themes, such as the place of monasteries in Muslim cultural life, accusations of Islam as crypto-adolatry, and Muslim responses to Christian apologetic arguments.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium On Arab Christianity And ... (4th: 2001: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2003.
Series:History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 1.
Subjects:
600-1500
Christianity and other religions > Islam > Congresses.
Islam > Relations > Christianity > Congresses.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Iraq > Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses.
Iraq
Church history
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Muslims as crypto-idolaters
  • a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East; Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyarat Books; Habib ibn Khidma Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III); 'Ammar al-Basri on the Incarnation; The Christian al-Ma'mun Tradition; Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wadi Natrun: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period.

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