Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition (Oxford Oriental Monographs)

Cover\nChristian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition\nCopyright\nAcknowledgements\nContents\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\nNote on Conventions and Abbreviations\nIntroduction: ‘A Constant but not Frozen Tradition’\n1: Authority, Compilation, and the Apologetic Tradition\n	1.1 ʿAbdīshōʿ as Cataloguer, Jurist, and Theological Poet\n	1.2 ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Written Legacy: A Panoramic View\n	1.3 ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Apologetic Works\n		1.3.1 Margānī
 tā d-ʿal šrārā da-ḵres:tyānū
 tā (‘The Pearl Concerning the Truth of Christianity’)\n		1.3.2 Haymānū
 tā d-nes: tōryānē (‘The Profession of Faith of the Nestorians’), or Amāna (‘Profession of Faith’)\n		1.3.3 al-Durra al-muthammana al-rū: hāniyya fī u: sūl al-dīn al-na:srāniyya (‘The Precious and Spiritual Pearl Concerning the Foundations of Christianity’), or al-Durra al-muthammana (‘The Precious Pearl’)\n		1.3.4 Farāʾid al-fawāʾid fī u: sūl al-dīn wa-l-ʿaqāʾid (‘Gems of Utility Concerning the Foundations of Religion and Beliefs’)\n		1.3.5 Khu:tba tata :dammanu :haqīqat iʿtiqādinā fī al-tathlīth wa-l- : hulūl (‘Sermon on the Truth of Our Belief in the Trinity and Indwelling’)\n	1.4 Christian–Muslim Relations beyond the ‘Sectarian Milieu’\n	1.5 Syriac Literature between ‘Decline’ and ‘Renaissance’\n	1.6 Language, Identity, and the Apologetic Agenda\n	1.7 The Texture, Function, and Audience of ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Apologetics\n	1.8 The Structure and Content of ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Apologetics\n	1.9 The Genre of Muslim Polemics against Christianity\n2: The Life and Times of a ‘Most Obscure Syrian’\n	2.1 Canon Law and the Path to Success\n	2.2 The Metropolitan See of Nisibis and Armenia\n	2.3 Church Life under Mongol Rule\n	2.4 The Intellectual Climate\n	Conclusions\n3: The One is Many and the Many are One: ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Trinitarian Thought\n	3.1 Some Salient Objections to the Trinity\n	3.2 Proofs of God’s Existence and Uniqueness\n		3.2.1 Teleological Arguments: Composition, Motion, and Mutual Interference\n		3.2.2 The Argument from Divine Intellection\n	3.3 The Attribute and Hypostasis Apology\n		3.3.1 Teleology Revisited: Attributes of Essence and Action\n		3.3.2 Hypostases of the One Substance\n	3.4 Appeals to Patristic and Scriptural Authority\n	Conclusions\n4: Debating Natures and Persons: ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Contribution to Christology\n	4.1 Some Notable Muslim and Jewish Objections to the Incarnation\n	4.2 The Intra-Christian Context\n		4.2.1 The Pearl’s Church-Historical Approach\n		4.2.2 From ʿa:sabiyya to Ecumenism: ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Arabic Christology\n		4.2.3 Mirror Christology and Sufi Poetics\n	4.3 The Incarnation between Reason and Revelation\n		4.3.1 The Incarnation as Divine Justice and Deception\n		4.3.2 The Incarnation between Scriptures\n		4.3.3 The Unifying Function of the Rational Soul\n	Conclusions\n5: Christian Practices, Islamic Contexts: Discourses on the Cross and Clapper\n	5.1 Some Muslim Representations of Christian Practices\n	5.2 ʿAbdīshōʿ apologia crucis\n		5.2.1 The Cross in Scripture\n		5.2.2 The Cross between Christian and Islamic Mortalism\n		5.2.3 The Cross as qibla: Rejecting Idolatry and Affirming Tradition\n	5.3 Sounding Salvation: The Call to Prayer between nāqūs and adhān\n		5.3.1 From Liturgy to Apology\n		5.3.2 For Whom the Clapper Claps: The Sermon of ʿAlī as Proof-Text\n	Conclusions\nGeneral Conclusion: A Tapestry Woven From Many Cloths\nAPPENDIX: ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Summae: An Overview of Contents\nBibliography\n	Manuscripts\n	Printed Primary Sources\n	Secondary Sources\nIndex of Scriptural Citations\nGeneral Index