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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rassi, Salam (1983-....)
Titre(s) : Christian thought in the medieval Islamicate world [Texte imprimé] : ʻAbdīshōʻ of Nisibis and the apologetic tradition / Salam Rassi
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv, 296 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford oriental monographs
Lien à la collection : Oxford Oriental monographs
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-285) and indexes
"Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʻAbdīshōʻ of Nisibis and the
Apologetic Tradition is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography
of ʻAbdīshōʻ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East.
Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, it examines the intellectual strategies
he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish)
criticisms. Better known to scholars of Syriac literature as a poet, jurist, and cataloguer,
ʻAbdīshōʻ wrote a considerable number of works in the Arabic language, many of which
have only recently come to light. He flourished at a time when Syriac Christian writers
were becoming increasingly indebted to Islamic models of intellectual production.
Yet many of his writings were composed during mounting religious tensions following
the official conversion of the Ilkhanate to Islam in 1295. In the midst of these challenges,
ʻAbdīshōʻ negotiates a centuries-long tradition of Syriac and Arabic apologetics
to remind his readers of the verity of the Christian faith. His engagement with this
tradition reveals how anti-Muslim apologetics had long shaped the articulation of
Christian identity in the Middle East since the emergence of Islam. Through a selective
process of encyclopaedism and systematisation, ʻAbdīshōʻ navigates a vast corpus
of Syriac and Arabic apologetics to create a synthesis and theological canon that
remains authoritative to this day"
Sujet(s) : ʻAbdisho bar Berīkā (1250?-1318)
Apologétique -- Empire islamique
Christianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Moyen âge
Islam -- Relations -- Christianisme -- Moyen âge
Indice(s) Dewey :
261.270 902 (23e éd.) = Christianisme et islam - 0500-1499
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0192846760. - ISBN 9780192846761
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46965666w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46965666
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: 'A constant but not frozen tradition' ; Authority, compilation, and
the apologetic tradition ; The life and times of a 'most obscure Syrian' ; The one
is many and the many are one: ʻAbdīshōʻ's Trinitarian thought ; Debating natures
and persons: ʻAbdīshōʻ's contribution to Christology ; Christian practices, Islamic
contexts: Disccourses on the cross and clapper ; General conclusion: A tapestry woven
from many cloths.
