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The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period

By Sidney H. Griffith

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2002
ISBN
086078889X, 9780860788898
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24846296 bytes)
Series
Variorum Collected Studies
Edition
1
Pages
345\340
Time added
2024-12-04 12:09:01

Description

The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian 'ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

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