Muslim-Christian polemic during the Crusades : the letter from the people of Cyprus and Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī's response / edited by Rifaat Y. Ebied, David Thomas.

By:

Ebied, R. Y

Contributor(s):

Thomas, David (David Richard), 1948-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Arabic Original language: Arabic Series: History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 2.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.Description: 1 online resource ([vii], 516 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1429407158
9781429407151
9789004135895
9004135898

Contained works:

Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1256 or 1257-1327. Response to the letter from the people of Cyprus. English & Arabic

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslim-Christian polemic during the Crusades.DDC classification:

261.2/7/09023 22

LOC classification:

BT1100 .M83 2005eb

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Contents:

The letters and their authors -- The manuscripts of the letters -- The language of the letters: divergences from classical usage -- The letter from the people of Cyprus -- Al-Dimashqi's response to the letter from the people of Cyprus.

Review: "This volume comprises an edition and English translation of the response in Arabic made by the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi to a letter sent to him by anonymous Christians from Cyprus. The Christian letter was also sent to al-Dimashqi's contemporary Ibn Taymiyya, and this response is thus a parallel to Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawab al-sahih."Summary: "In their letter the Christians subtly suggest that the Qur'an supports Christian doctrines. Al-Dimashqi replies with a comprehensive series of elaborate and wide-ranging arguments that incorporate not only themes familiar from earlier polemical works but also his own original points. His response is thus an important source of information about the development of Muslim interfaith attitudes, and a significant example of polemic in the later medieval period. The edition presents the two parts of this correspondence in parallel Arabic and English versions, together with an extensive introduction, textual notes and commentary."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-503) and index.

English and Arabic.

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"This volume comprises an edition and English translation of the response in Arabic made by the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi to a letter sent to him by anonymous Christians from Cyprus. The Christian letter was also sent to al-Dimashqi's contemporary Ibn Taymiyya, and this response is thus a parallel to Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawab al-sahih."

"In their letter the Christians subtly suggest that the Qur'an supports Christian doctrines. Al-Dimashqi replies with a comprehensive series of elaborate and wide-ranging arguments that incorporate not only themes familiar from earlier polemical works but also his own original points. His response is thus an important source of information about the development of Muslim interfaith attitudes, and a significant example of polemic in the later medieval period. The edition presents the two parts of this correspondence in parallel Arabic and English versions, together with an extensive introduction, textual notes and commentary."--Jacket.

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