“Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Prolegomena to Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān 1
6. An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 7
7. Qur’ānic Letter versus Spirit: Approaches to the Qur’ān in Kitāb Usṭāt al-rāhib and Masāʾil wa-ajwiba ʿaqliyya wa-ilāhiyya 45
8. “Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics 77
9. Continuities and Discontinuities in Byzantine Anti-Islamic Polemics from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century: The Mount Athos, Great Lavra, MS gr. Ω 44 101
10. Michael Synkellos and His Lost Refutation of Islam in the Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Literary Tradition 125
11. The Qur’ān in Ethiopia and Eritrea, Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Qur’ān: Textual Connections and Circulation among Muslims and Christians of al-Ḥabasha 153
12. The Armenian Confutatio Alcorani and Its Polemical Function for the Armenian Communities in Pre-Modern Iran 173
13. Anti-Islamic Polemics, Scholarship and Encyclopedism in the Greek Orthodox World: Nicholas Karatzas and His Summa Saracenica 201
14. System and Muhammadan Religion by Sofroniy Vrachanski: The Bulgarian Translation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Kniga Sistima 251
15. Russian Orthodox Qur’ān Translations of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century and Tatar-Muslim Responses 277
16. Epilogue: Christian Reading of the Qur’ān in the Islamic World 309
17. List of Contributors 317
18. Index of Manuscripts and Prints 321
19. Index 325