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The study of medieval Christian Arabic texts interacting with Islam is a steadily growing scholarly field. Numerous unedited Christian Arabic texts, covering a variety of fascinating topics, await deeper analysis and study. How did early Arabic-speaking Christians respond to the Islamic claims against the Bible, the Trinity, and the incarnation? How did these Christians view Islam, Muḥammad, and the Qur’ān? How did these theologians employ Arabic to defend their faith and its tenets? To what extent were Christians able to advance the Christian belief of a Triune God in opposition to the Islamic view of strict monotheism? Can today’s Church, particularly in the West, benefit in any way from the earliest arguments articulated, developed, and advanced by these medieval Arabic-speaking Christians? These questions, and many more, are at the heart of this important volume. This volume examines nine key medieval Arabic-speaking Christian figures. It discusses their responses to Islamic criticisms, aiming to provide interested students—both undergraduate and graduate—with an accessible resource that includes historical background for each figure, major arguments they posed, and partial translations of their works. This volume is decidedly easy to read. It aims to provide an entry point for students interested in the history of Christian-Muslim encounters and in Middle Eastern Christianity more generally. Our hope is that the reading of this book will make some of the most important voices of medieval Arabic-speaking Christianity—and their contributions to the Christian-Muslim theological encounter—more easily and widely accessible in the English-speaking university context.

Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Christian literature, Arabic --- Apologetics --- Christian literature, Arabic. --- Christianity. --- Interfaith relations. --- Islam. --- History. --- Relations --- History and criticism. --- History --- Middle Ages. --- 600-1500. --- Arab countries. --- Christianity and other religions.

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Christelijke literatuur [Arabische ] --- Christian literature [Arabic ] --- Littérature chrétienne arabe --- Theology --- Christian literature, Arabic --- Ghazzī, Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, --- Academic collection --- Ghazzī, Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, --- Translations into Italian --- Theology - Early works to 1800 --- Christian literature, Arabic - Translations into Italian --- Ghazzī, Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, - active 10th century-11th century

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This volume tells the story of the Arabic translations of the Church Fathers. By tracing the history of major translation centres, such as Palestine, Sinai, and Antioch, it describes how Middle Eastern Christians translated into Arabic, preserved, and engaged with their Patristic heritage. In addition to well known authors, such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Ephrem the Syrian, and Dionysius the Areopagite, the volume presents a Patristic treatise written in Greek but preserved only in Arabic: the Noetic Paradise. Finally, by reconstructing a lost Arabic Dionysian paraphrase used by the Muslim theologian al-Ghazali, the volume explores Patristic influences on Islamic thought.

Christianity --- Christian literature, Early --- Christian literature, Arabic --- Fathers of the church, Arabic. --- Translations into Arabic --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Arab countries --- Church history.