The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter

Essays in Honour of David Thomas
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-25742-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam, and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations, at the University of Birmingham, UK. The Editors have put together a collection of over 30 contributions from colleagues of Professor Thomas that commences with a biographical sketch and representative tribute provided by a former doctoral student, and comprises a series of wide-ranging academic papers arranged to broadly reflect three dimensions of David Thomas’ academic and professional work – studies in and of Islam; Christian-Muslim relations; the Church and interreligious engagement. These are set in the context of a focussed theme – the character of Christian-Muslim encounters – and cast within a broad chronological framework.

Contributors, excluding the editors, are: Clare Amos, John Azumah, Mark Beaumont, David Cheetham, Rifaat Ebied, Stanislaw Grodz SVD, Alan Guenther, Damian Howard SJ, Michael Ipgrave, Muammer Iskenderoglu, Risto Jukko, Alex Mallett, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Lucinda Mosher, Gordon Nickel, Jørgen Nielsen, Claire Norton, Emilio Platti, Luis Bernabé Pons, Peniel Rajkumar, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Andrew Sharp, Sigvard von Sicard, Richard Sudworth, Mark Swanson, Charles Tieszen, John Tolan, Davide Tacchini, Herman Teule, Albert Walters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pratt, Douglas

Hoover, Jon

Davies, John

Chesworth, John A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Publisher’s Preface
Contributor Notes
General Introduction
Editors

1 David Thomas: The Hearing of Two Vocations—A Biographical Sketch
John Davies
2 Professor David Thomas—A Representative Reminiscence
Albert Suderaraj Walters

Part 1 From the Rise of Islam to the Medieval World
3 Facing the Last Day through Two Narrative Apocalyptic Figures in the Coptic-Arabic ‘Apocalypse of Pseudo-Athanasius’
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
4 The Holy Spirit in Early Christian Dialogue with Muslims
Mark Beaumont
5 Yahya ibn 'Adi, Disciples and Masters: On Questions of Religious Philosophy
Emilio Platti
6 The Theme of Language in Christian-Muslim Discussions in the 'Abbasid Period: Some Christian Views
Herman Teule
7 A Neglected Piece of Evidence for Early Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Crusader Presence in the Levant:
The ‘Jihad Chapter’ from Tuhfat al-muluk
Alex Mallett
8 Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and Ibn 'Arabi on the Ways to Knowledge of God: Unveiling or Reflection and Reasoning?
Muammer Iskenderoglu
9 “Can You Find Anything Praiseworthy in My Religion?” Religious Aversion and Admiration in Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations
Charles L. Tieszen
10 The First Imposition of a Badge on European Jews: The English Royal Mandate of 1218
John Tolan
11 An Arabic Version of the Treatise on the Origin and History of the Thirty Pieces of Silver which Judas Received from the Jews
Rifaat Ebied
12 Debating According to the Rules: A Conversation about the Crucifixion in al-Hawi by al-Makin Jirjis ibn al-'Amid
Mark N. Swanson

Part 2 From Early Modernity to the Present
13 Islamic Anti-Christian Polemics in 16th Century Spain: The Lead Books of Granada and the Gospel of Barnabas.
Beyond the Limits of tahrif
Luis F. Bernabé Pons
14 Islam: An (Almost) Redundant Element in the Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Encounters between the 16th and 19th Centuries?
Stanislaw Grodz svd
15 (In)tolerant Ottomans: Polemic, Perspective and the Reading of Primary Sources
Claire Norton
16 The Hadith in Christian-Muslim Dialogue in 19th Century India
Alan M. Gu

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Pratt, PhD (1984), St Andrews, Scotland, DTheol (2009) MCD Melbourne, is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor, University of Bern. His most recent book is Being Open, Being Faithful: The Journey of Interreligious Dialogue (2014).

Jon Hoover, PhD (2002), Birmingham, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has published Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (2007), studies on the theology of Ibn Taymiyya, among others, and essays on Christian-Muslim relations.

John Davies (The Very Revd), PhD (1999), Lancaster University, is Dean of Derby Cathedral and a former Chaplain of Keble College Oxford.

John Chesworth, PhD (2008), Birmingham, is project officer and co-editor with David Thomas for Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. He co-edited Shari'a in Africa Today: Reactions and Responses (2014) and has written on Christian-Muslim relations in Africa and Europe.