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Christian and Muslim Dialogues : The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic Middle East / David Bertaina.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Eastern Christian StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781611439205
  • 9781463219345
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 230
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. DIALOGUE AS CHRISTOLOGICAL DEBATE -- 2. DIALOGUE AS DIVINE EXEGESIS: THE CASE OF THE QUR’AN -- 3. DIALOGUE AS CONQUEST AND CONVERSION -- 4. DIALOGUE AS COMPETING HISTORIOGRAPHIES -- 5. DIALOGUE AS THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND DIALECTIC -- 6. DIALOGUE AS HAGIOGRAPHY -- 7. DIALOGUE AS SCRIPTURAL REINTERPRETATION -- 8. THE END OF DIALOGUE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Linked by a common geography and claim to the true religion, Christians and Muslims had a long history of interreligious discourse up to the Crusades. These faith communities composed texts in the form of dialogues in light of their encounters with one another. This book surveys the development of the genre and how dialogues determined he patterns of conversation. Each chapter highlights a thematic feature of the literary form, demonstrating that Christian and Muslim authors did not part ways in the first century of Islamic rule, but rather continued a dialogue commending God’s faithful believers.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. DIALOGUE AS CHRISTOLOGICAL DEBATE -- 2. DIALOGUE AS DIVINE EXEGESIS: THE CASE OF THE QUR’AN -- 3. DIALOGUE AS CONQUEST AND CONVERSION -- 4. DIALOGUE AS COMPETING HISTORIOGRAPHIES -- 5. DIALOGUE AS THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND DIALECTIC -- 6. DIALOGUE AS HAGIOGRAPHY -- 7. DIALOGUE AS SCRIPTURAL REINTERPRETATION -- 8. THE END OF DIALOGUE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Linked by a common geography and claim to the true religion, Christians and Muslims had a long history of interreligious discourse up to the Crusades. These faith communities composed texts in the form of dialogues in light of their encounters with one another. This book surveys the development of the genre and how dialogues determined he patterns of conversation. Each chapter highlights a thematic feature of the literary form, demonstrating that Christian and Muslim authors did not part ways in the first century of Islamic rule, but rather continued a dialogue commending God’s faithful believers.

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In English.

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