The encounter of Eastern Christianity with early Islam / [print]
edited by Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark Swanson, and David Thomas.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2006.
- vi, 338 pages ; 25 cm.
Papers from a workshop held in June 2003 in Erfurt, Germany.
Islam and Oriens Christianus: Makka 610-622 A.D. Face to face encounter between Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the caliph Umar Ibn al-Khatab: friends or foes? Ideological transformation and the evolution of imperial presentation in the wake of Islam's victory Early Muslim raids into Anatolia and Byzantine reactions under Emperor Constans II Copts and the Islam of the seventh century Amid in the seventh-century Syriac life of Theodute Die islamische Zeit in Giwargis Wardas 'Onita uber die Katholikoi des Ostens Political power and right religion in the east Syrian disputation between a monk of Bet Hale and an Arab notable Perception and presentation of the Arab conquest in Syriac historiography: how did the changing social position of the Syrian Orthodox community influence the account of their historiographers? New Testament citations in the hadith literature and the question of early gospel translations into Arabic Muslim-Christian controversy in an unedited Syriac text, Revelations and testimonies about our Lord's dispensation Folly to the Hunafa: the crucifixion in early Christian-Muslim controversy Christian theologians and new questions Answers for the shaykh: a 'Melkite' Arabic text from Sinai and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation in 'Arab orthodox' apologetics Emmanouela Grypeou -- Irfan Shahid -- Daniel J. Sahas -- David Olster -- Walter E. Kaegi -- Harald Suermann -- Andrew Palmer -- Martin Tamcke -- Gerrit J. Reinink -- Jan J. van Ginkel -- David Cook -- Muriel Debie -- Mark N. Swanson -- David Thomas -- Sidney H. Griffith.