The Polemical Works of ʿalī Al-Ṭabarī

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30915-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

Acknowledged as a leading medical expert in his day, and secretary to a succession of caliphs in the mid-ninth century, the Nestorian Christian 'Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari converted to Islam around the age of 70. He then wrote Radd 'ala l-Nasara, a recantation of his former faith, and Kitab al-din wa-l-dawla, a defence of the Prophet Muhammad based substantially on biblical proof-texts. The range of arguments he produced against the soundness of his former faith in these two works influenced sections of Islamic scholarship for many centuries.
These new editions and translations of his works are based on all the available evidence for the texts, accompanied by extensive introductions and studies of their place in Islamic thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebied, Rifaat

Thomas, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Apologetik, Kritik am Christentum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

'Ali al-Tabari, Fragments of a Life

The manuscripts and language of 'Ali al-Tabari’s polemical works

Al-radd 'ala l-Nasara, introduction

Al-radd 'ala l-Nasara, edition and translation

Kitab al-din wa-l-dawla, introduction

Kitab al-din wa-l-dawla, edition and translation

Bibliography
References in the Bible and Qur'an
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Thomas, PhD (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Professor of Christianity and Islam and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations at the University of Birmingham. Among his most recent works are Understanding Interreligious Relations (OUP 2013) and CMR vols 1-7 (Brill, 2009-15).

Rifaat Ebied is Emeritus Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney and an Adjunct Professor of the Australian Catholic University. He has published extensively in the field of Semitic Studies generally and on Christian Arabic and Syriac Studies as well as Christian-Muslim relations in particular, most recently Muslim-Christian Polemic during the Crusades (with David Thomas) (Brill, 2005).