Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule: Church Life and Scholarship in 'Abbasid Iraq (History of Christian-Muslim Relations, 1) (History of Christian-Muslim Relations, 1)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 16
Muslims as crypto-idolaters—a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East......Page 17
Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyārāt Books......Page 35
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)......Page 55
'Ammār al-Basri on the Incarnation......Page 71
The Christian al-Ma'mūn Tradition......Page 79
Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wādi Natrūn: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period......Page 109
The 'Philosophical Life’ in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahyā Ibn 'Adi’s Kitāb tahdhib al-akhlāq......Page 145
Yahyā Ibn 'Adi and the Theory of Iktisāb......Page 167
Language and thought in Kitāb al-majdal, bāb 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa......Page 175
The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib’s Commentary on the Gospels......Page 193
The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth–eighth/fourteenth centuries)......Page 215
A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary......Page 231
Early Muslim Responses to Christianity......Page 247
Bibliography......Page 271
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