Christians at the heart of Islamic rule : church life and scholarship in Abbasid Iraq / / edited by David Thomas

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 275.67/03
• Soggetto topico: Christianity and other religions - Islam; Islam - Relations - Christianity
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500 Congresses
• Altri autori: ThomasDavid <1948-> (David Richard)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Diyārāt Books; Habib ibn Khidma Abū Rā'ita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III); 'Ammār al-Basri on the Incarnation; The Christian al-Ma'mūn Tradition; Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wādi Natrūn: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period ; The 'Philosophical Life' in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahyā Ibn 'Adi's Kitāb tahdhib al-akhlāqYahyā Ibn 'Adi and the Theory of Iktisāb; Language and thought in Kitāb al-majdal, bāb 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa; The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on the Gospels; The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth-eighth/fourteenth centuries); A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary ; Early Muslim Responses to ChristianityBibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Christians at the heart of Islamic rule
• ISBN: 1-280-46717-7; 9786610467174; 1-4175-3897-X; 90-474-0191-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810515903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of Christian-Muslim relations ; ; v. 1.