Papers from a workshop held in June 2005 in Erfurt, Germany. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Sidney H. Griffith. Answers for the shaykh: a 'Melkite' Arabic text from Sinai and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation in 'Arab orthodox' apologetics / Irfan Shahīd -- Face to face encounter between Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Caliph ʻUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: friends or foes? / Daniel J. Sahas -- Ideological transformation and the evolution of imperial presentation in the wake of Islam's victory / David Olster -- Early Muslim raids into Anatolia and Byzantine reactions under Emperor Constans II / Walter E. Kaegi -- Copts and the Islam of the seventh century / Harald Suermann -- Āmīd in the seventh-century Syriac life of Theodūṭē / Andrew Palmer -- Die islamische Zeit in Giwargis Wardas 'Onita über die Katholikoi des Ostens / Martin Tamcke -- Political power and right religion in the east Syrian disputation between a monk of Bēt Ḥālē and an Arab notable / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Perception and presentation of the Arab conquest in Syriac historiography: how did the changing social position of the Syrian Orthodox community influence the account of their historiographers? / Jan J. van Ginkel -- New Testament citations in the ḥadīth literature and the question of early gospel translations into Arabic / David Cook -- Muslim-Christian controversy in an unedited Syriac text, Revelations and testimonies about our Lord's dispensation / Muriel Debié -- Folly to the Ḥunafā: the crucifixion in early Christian-Muslim controversy / Mark N. Swanson -- Christian theologians and new questions / David Thomas -- Answers for the shaykh: a 'Melkite' Arabic text from Sinai and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation in 'Arab orthodox' apologetics / Sidney H. Griffith.
Series:
The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 1570-7350 ; v. 5
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