Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, C. 1050-1200

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09910-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 876 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This is a study of the intellectual history of the Andalus? Christians (alias Mozarabs) of Spain based on their Arabic and Latin polemical writings against Islam, c. 1050-1200.
The first part of the book examines how these authors drew on earlier Oriental Arab-Christian theology, twelfth-century Latin-Christian theology, and the foundational texts of Islam itself — the Qur’?n and h?ad?t — for polemical purposes. The second part is a critical edition and English translation of the most important source, the Liber denudationis siue ostensionis aut patefaciens (alias Contrarietas alfolica).
Since it describes how the Andalus? Christians participated in the pluralistic intellectual milieu in which they lived, this study will be of interest to historians of medieval Spain's minority groups, Christian-Muslim relations, and the Arab-Christian tradition.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in medieval Spanish History, Christian-Muslim relations, Arab-Christian thought and history, medieval Arabic-to-Latin translation, and medieval religious and ethnic pluralism and acculturation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burman, Thomas

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Burman, Ph.D. (1991) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the author of an article on Andalusi-Christians in Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam, (New York, 1994).