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Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations offers a panoramic survey of the Arabic translations of the Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th-10th centuries and in Antioch during... more
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations offers a panoramic survey of the Arabic translations of the Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th-10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969-1084). These Arabic translations frequently preserve material lost in the original languages (mainly Greek and Syriac). They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle Eastern Christians from the 8th century to the present. A systematic examination of Arabic patristic translations paves the way to an assessment of their impact on Muslim and Jewish theological thought.
Contributors are Aaron Michael Butts, Joe Glynias, Habib Ibrahim, Jonas Karlsson, Sergey Kim, Joshua Mugler, Tamara Pataridze, Alexandre Roberts, Barbara Roggema, Alexander Treiger.
Contributors are Aaron Michael Butts, Joe Glynias, Habib Ibrahim, Jonas Karlsson, Sergey Kim, Joshua Mugler, Tamara Pataridze, Alexandre Roberts, Barbara Roggema, Alexander Treiger.
Research Interests: Patristics, Arab Christian Studies, Basil of Caesarea, Arabic-Speaking Orthodox Christianity, Arabic Manuscripts, and 12 morePatristics and Late Antiquity, The Principality of Antioch, Graeco-Arabic translation movement, John of Damascus, Syriac manuscripts, Severian of Gabala, Germanus of Constantinople, Greek Patristics, Pseudo-Athanasius, Graeco-Arabica, Christian Arabic Literature, and Jacob of Sarug
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In this chapter I present a hitherto unknown Karshuni text which explains how the Qur'an should be read in a way that is favorable to Christians. An analysis of the text shows it partly derives from Elias of Nisibis' apologetic works and... more
In this chapter I present a hitherto unknown Karshuni text which explains how the Qur'an should be read in a way that is favorable to Christians. An analysis of the text shows it partly derives from Elias of Nisibis' apologetic works and the Debate between Theodore Abu Qurra and the Caliph al-Ma'mun. The unknown author/compiler stresses that Christians are monotheists (in contradistinction to Manichaeans, Marcionites and Bardaysanites) who can, should and do live peacefully as a protected people in Muslim society.
Research Interests: Arab Christian Studies, Syriac Studies, Muslim-Christian Relation, Christian Apologetics, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and 8 moreGarshuni, Qur'anic Hermeneutics, Convivencia, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac, Arabic and Arabic Karshuni manuscripts preserved in the Middle East Libraries., Christian Arabic Literature, Elias of Nisibis, and Theodore Abu Qurrah
Even though women and questions of gender difference are not a core issue in medieval Eastern Christian–Muslim polemic, there are numerous arguments that go back and forth between Muslims and Christians that revolve around women. In the... more
Even though women and questions of gender difference are not a core issue in medieval Eastern Christian–Muslim polemic, there are numerous arguments that go back and forth between Muslims and Christians that revolve around women. In the large corpus of polemical texts from the
Middle East between the 8th and the 13th centuries, it can be noted that criticism of the other religion involves pointing out illogicalities and absurdities in each other’s doctrines and rituals. Carefully
constructed arguments against the claim to Divine endorsement of the faith of the other party are frequently interlaced with criticism of their alleged immoral behavior. Although women feature mostly in the emotive sections of the polemical compositions, there are also reasoned debates about the issue of gender equality in the eyes of God. The discussion of these texts here brings out a range of diverse ideas about women that function primarily as sources for subsidiary arguments against the religious other. At the same time, this study reveals that these arguments were not invented ad hoc. They show the interconnectedness of works within a corpus of polemical texts that spans five centuries.
Keywords: Muslim-Christian relations; gender studies; polemics; medieval Islam; Eastern Christianity;
Armenian attitudes to Islam; Christian Arab attitudes to Islam
Middle East between the 8th and the 13th centuries, it can be noted that criticism of the other religion involves pointing out illogicalities and absurdities in each other’s doctrines and rituals. Carefully
constructed arguments against the claim to Divine endorsement of the faith of the other party are frequently interlaced with criticism of their alleged immoral behavior. Although women feature mostly in the emotive sections of the polemical compositions, there are also reasoned debates about the issue of gender equality in the eyes of God. The discussion of these texts here brings out a range of diverse ideas about women that function primarily as sources for subsidiary arguments against the religious other. At the same time, this study reveals that these arguments were not invented ad hoc. They show the interconnectedness of works within a corpus of polemical texts that spans five centuries.
Keywords: Muslim-Christian relations; gender studies; polemics; medieval Islam; Eastern Christianity;
Armenian attitudes to Islam; Christian Arab attitudes to Islam
Research Interests: Armenian Studies, Female Circumcision, Male Circumcision, Arab Christian Studies, Gender Equality, and 11 moreFemale Genital Mutilation, Byzantine Studies, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Marriage and Divorce, Afterlife studies, Muslim-Christian Relation, Christian-Muslim Dialogue, John of Damascus, Impurity, Early Christian Muslim Dialogue, and Theodore Abu Qurrah
This paper has the aim to present a project currently underway at the Interdepartmental Research Unit of the University of Florence, entitled Cultures, texts and traditions of the Christian East in dialogue with Europe and Islam... more
This paper has the aim to present a project currently underway at the
Interdepartmental Research Unit of the University of Florence, entitled
Cultures, texts and traditions of the Christian East in dialogue with
Europe and Islam (EuTradOr). The aim of this project is the critical edition
of the texts related to the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, the
reconstruction of the history of their textual traditions, and the study of
this Legend in all its aspects: religious, cultural, and anthropological.
Interdepartmental Research Unit of the University of Florence, entitled
Cultures, texts and traditions of the Christian East in dialogue with
Europe and Islam (EuTradOr). The aim of this project is the critical edition
of the texts related to the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, the
reconstruction of the history of their textual traditions, and the study of
this Legend in all its aspects: religious, cultural, and anthropological.
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The Munājāt Mūsā or ‘the Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai’ is a Moses apocryphon, probably originally written in Arabic, that describes how God gave Moses a series of moral injunctions and rituals and how Moses... more
The Munājāt Mūsā or ‘the Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai’ is a Moses apocryphon, probably originally written in Arabic, that describes how God gave Moses a series of moral injunctions and rituals and how Moses questioned God about His being and His power. The exchange between the two also features cosmogonic and soteriological themes and culminates in God’s promise of a fuller and final revelation in the future. In the Christian version God announces the Divine incarnation, while in the case of the Islamic Munājāt Mūsā, God gives a preview of the advent of Muhammad. Judging from the vast amount of surviving manuscripts from all over the Islamicate world (including translations into Aljamiado, Swahili, Hausa, Turkish, Persian and Malay), these versions must have been very popular. Eastern Christians also had versions in Syriac, Ethiopic and Armenian, as did the Jews of Ethiopia. In this paper I introduce the various versions, list their manuscripts, and analyze and compare some of the narrative strategies through which they appropriate Moses and the revelation on Sinai as known the Hebrew Bible. I also argue that there are elements in the apocryphon pointing to an Islamic origin.
Research Interests: Arab Christian Studies, Syriac Studies, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Questions and Answers, Arabic Manuscripts, and 10 moreAljamiado Texts, Beta Israel, Malay, Moses, Ge'ez, Erotapokriseis, West African Ajami literature (Manuscripts & published), Islamic Literature, Arabic Language and Literature, and Qisas Al-anbiya'
This article investigates the attitude of al-Masʿūdī to the world around him by focusing on a minor theme in his works: the interaction between Jews and Christians throughout history. The hypothesis of the article is that this theme,... more
This article investigates the attitude of al-Masʿūdī to the world around him by focusing on a minor theme in his works: the interaction between Jews and Christians throughout history. The hypothesis of the article is that this theme, which also plays a role in the foundational texts of Islam, would provoke al-Masʿūdī to express some of his views on these religious communities, rather than merely describing their doctrines and customs in his usual non-committal way. This hypothesis turns out to be correct: al-Masʿūdī engages with the tensions between the two communities and seems to subscribe to the Christian anti-Jewish clichés that he integrates. At the same time, he uses more subtle ways to criticize Christians too. In other instances, he takes on a rather traditional supersessionist tone, with which he dismisses both communities. One has to conclude that al-Masʿūdī did not feel the need to press one specific viewpoint on these issues, which as such is telling for his historiographical style.
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On the persistence of Christian anti-Jewish polemic in early Islam and on some Jewish responses
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This paper deals with Pseudo-Athanasius’ Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem—an important Late Antique erotapokriseis (questions-and-answers) text, which, though ascribed to Athanasius of Alexandria, is from a later date, its real author... more
This paper deals with Pseudo-Athanasius’ Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem—an important Late Antique erotapokriseis (questions-and-answers) text, which, though ascribed to Athanasius of Alexandria, is from a later date, its real author having remained anonymous. The Arabic translation of the Greek text, likely produced in one of the monasteries of Palestine or Sinai, is attested from as early as the ninth century in two recensions, one of which contains all 137 questions, and its extant manuscripts are older than those surviving in Greek. The fact that the text was used as a source in three well-known early Melkite treatises indicates its popularity among Arabic-speaking Christians.
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From the sourcebook Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: a translation of Hunayn ibn Ishāq's reply to ʿAlī b. Yahyā b. al-Munajjim's proof (burhān) of the truth of Muhammad's Prophethood, with brief introduction.
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[partial copy for copyright reasons. For the full chapter, see: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/entangled-hagiographies-of-the-religious-other]
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This chapter deals with an apoptropaic prayer in Arabic, the prayer of Mar Cyprian, which is found on the reverse of a long Byzantine Greek amulet roll (University of Chicago Library MS 125 and Pierpont Morgan Library MS 499). This is a... more
This chapter deals with an apoptropaic prayer in Arabic, the prayer of Mar Cyprian, which is found on the reverse of a long Byzantine Greek amulet roll (University of Chicago Library MS 125 and Pierpont Morgan Library MS 499). This is a long strip of parchment combining images, prayers and the Abgar legend in Greek from Trebizond, with designs and prayers in Arabic from the Middle East. Together these facets evoke a whole word in magic, pious devotion and intercultural dialogue. Now divided between collections in Chicago and New York, this amulet roll is here fully situated in the long tradition of such powerful objects.
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This brief article describes how the research team of the ERC-project JewsEast is preparing a major inventory of sources from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean that address Jewish-Christian relations in... more
This brief article describes how the research team of the ERC-project JewsEast is preparing a major inventory of sources from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean that address Jewish-Christian relations in these regions. In it is explained what types of source material will be treated in the survey.
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Barbara Roggema, Marcel Poorthuis and Pim Valkenberg (eds), The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Leuven, 2005, 47-68
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H. Vanstiphout et al (eds), All those nations …Cultural Encounters within and with the Near East. Studies presented to Han Drijvers at the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday by colleagues and students, Groningen, 1999, 131-139
Research Interests: Jewish - Christian Relations, Syriac Christianity, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Ibn Kammuna, Medieval Jewish-Muslim Encounters, Judeo-arabic manuscripts regarding Islam, Polemics of Jewish Authors against Islam, and 3 moreResearch Medieval Judaism and Jewish Christian relations in Late Antiquity and Medieval age., Christian Arabic Literature, and Tahrif
Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (600-900), ed. By David Thomas & Barbara Roggema with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule en John Tolan , Leiden, 2009, pp. 347-353
Research Interests: Abbasid History, Abbasid Intellectual History, Muslim-Christian Relation, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Bible in Arabic, and 5 moreArab-Byzantine relations in the Medieval Mediterranean, al-Rashid Abbasid caliph, Arab-Islamic History and Civilization and their relations with Byzantium, Early Christian Muslim Dialogue, and Prophethood and Prophetology In Islam
Studies on the Christian Arabic Heritage in honour of Father Prof. Dr. Samir Khalil Samir S.I. on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. by Rifaat Ebied & Herman Teule, Leuven--Paris--Dudley, 2004, pp. 113-131
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Research Interests: Arab Christian Studies, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Jewish - Christian Relations, Muslim-Christian Relation, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, and 5 moreSyriac Christianity, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, history of the non-Muslim minorities, Christian Arabic Literature, and Copts In Islamic Society
About how Christians in the Middle East read the Qur'an to find support for their own faith and about the extent they were aware of tafsir, as illustrated by the Legend of Sergius Bahira.
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Entry from Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 1, 2009
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Entry from Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol, 1, Leiden, 2009
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Entry from Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 1, Leiden, 2009
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Entries from Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 1, Leiden, 2009
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Entry from Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 1, Leiden, 2009
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Entry from Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol 1, 2009
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CMR entry on a 9th c. (?) Christian apologist writing in Arabic
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Anonymous East-Syrian text on the alleged corruption of the Qur'an by Kaʿb al-Aḥbār and the intervention in the Qur'anic text by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf
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ʿEltā d-mawteh d-Muḥammad, an anonymous East-Syrian text, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (600-900), Leiden, 2009
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Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), 23 July-3 Aug 2018. The course will introduce doctoral and advanced research-oriented MA students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus,... more
Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), 23 July-3 Aug 2018.
The course will introduce doctoral and advanced research-oriented MA students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa, especially Ethiopia, and the Indian Ocean in the period between 600-1800 CE. This is the topic of a research project aiming at establishing a new area of study – relations between Jews and Eastern Christian communities from the rise of Islam to the end of the eighteenth century.
The course will introduce doctoral and advanced research-oriented MA students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa, especially Ethiopia, and the Indian Ocean in the period between 600-1800 CE. This is the topic of a research project aiming at establishing a new area of study – relations between Jews and Eastern Christian communities from the rise of Islam to the end of the eighteenth century.
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Հակահրեականությունը ի ծառայություն հակահայկական վիճաբանության. ասորական անտիպ բանաստեղծություններ կենդանիների զոհաբերության մասին: Սառա Սկարպելլինի (Ֆլորենցիայի համալսարան) Կապակցելով Հայաստանը և Սփյուռքը միջնադարում. վարքագրությունը և... more
Հակահրեականությունը ի ծառայություն հակահայկական վիճաբանության. ասորական անտիպ բանաստեղծություններ կենդանիների զոհաբերության մասին: Սառա Սկարպելլինի (Ֆլորենցիայի համալսարան) Կապակցելով Հայաստանը և Սփյուռքը միջնադարում. վարքագրությունը և սրբերի պաշտամունքը: Խաչիկ Հարությունյան (Մատենադարան/Պատմամշակութային ժառանգության գիտահետազոտական կենտրոն) ԺԲ-ԺԴ դարերի հիշատակարաններում վկայված անձնանունները՝ որպես միջմշակութային առնչությունների արտահայտություն:
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Program of a workshop on the many ways Muslims conceptualized Jewish-Christian relations.
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How did Muslim thinkers perceive, imagine and depict Jewish-Christian interaction, whether it be in the past, in their contemporary world or in the eschatological future? Although there are numerous studies on Muslim views of... more
How did Muslim thinkers perceive, imagine and depict Jewish-Christian interaction, whether it be in the past, in their contemporary world or in the eschatological future? Although there are numerous studies on Muslim views of Christianity, as well as on Muslim views of Judaism, there are no noteworthy ones, as yet, that deal with the question of whether and how Muslims authors (historians, exegetes, legal scholars, littérateurs) reflected on historical and imaginary relations between Jews and Christians. This collection seeks to fill this lacuna, at least in part.
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Qur'anic Studies, Jewish - Christian Relations, Muslim-Christian Relation, Jewish-Muslim Relations, and 8 moreMuslim-Christian Relations, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Ibn Taymiyya, Jewish-Christian relations, Ancient South Arabia, Research Medieval Judaism and Jewish Christian relations in Late Antiquity and Medieval age., Christianity in South Arabia before Islam, and Abrogation (naskh)
The series consists of monographs, collected volumes, as well as original texts and translations of sources whose primary focus is contact or ongoing interactions between Eastern Christian communities from the age of Patristics down to... more
The series consists of monographs, collected volumes, as well as original texts and translations of sources whose primary focus is contact or ongoing interactions between Eastern Christian communities from the age of Patristics down to the late Ottoman Empire. The series will focus on Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, Nubian and Ethiopic Christians. Contacts between these communities are severely understudied in favour of their interactions with the Greek and Latin churches, which are frequently presented in terms of influence and reception within a Roman-or Constantinople-centered perspective. Yet, throughout centuries Eastern Christian communities enriched each other through multi-layered interactions that could also be a result of their opposition to these so-called imperial (in the case of Eastern Roman) and centralized (in the case of the Catholic) churches. Furthermore, academic publications on Eastern Christianities often address each highly sophisticated and specialized field with a small audience of scholars separately, rather than in conversation with each other. This new series, on the one hand, will take us beyond both Byzantino-centric paradigms, serving as a corrective to any binary and limited views and, on the other, will emphasise the existence of polycentric Christianities in ongoing and centuries-long interactions with each other. The publications should explore evidence for entanglements in terms of literary contacts, such as in hagiographical and polemical texts, translations between and among the relevant languages, circulation of texts, topoi, themes and/or persons across languages, as well as aspects of material culture, such as artistic and architectural exchanges or archeological evidence. The series, thus, will fill a gap in targeting and encouraging publications in an innovative field of research, which is not covered by any available academic series. Method of peer review Double-blind undertaken by a specialist member of the Board or an external specialist.