Continuities and Discontinuities in Byzantine Anti-Islamic Polemics from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century: The Mount Athos, Great Lavra, MS gr. Ω 44
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Manolis Ulbricht
Abstract
This chapter analyzes patterns of transmissions and circulations of ideological and theological argumentation attested in various texts of the anti-Islamic anthology preserved in the Mount Athos, Great Lavra, MS gr. Ω 44. The research focuses on intertextual relations between the texts preserved in this Greek manuscript in order to draw lines of continuities and discontinuities, to compare the knowledge on Islam provided in different texts, and to examine uniform and/or diverse forms of transmissions of various anti-Islamic polemics. When compared to later Byzantine polemics, the analysis of the anthology reveals how anti-Islamic knowledge transferred between different authors, texts, periods, and contexts. The chapter sheds light on the intellectual backgrounds of the authors and contexts of their works.
Abstract
This chapter analyzes patterns of transmissions and circulations of ideological and theological argumentation attested in various texts of the anti-Islamic anthology preserved in the Mount Athos, Great Lavra, MS gr. Ω 44. The research focuses on intertextual relations between the texts preserved in this Greek manuscript in order to draw lines of continuities and discontinuities, to compare the knowledge on Islam provided in different texts, and to examine uniform and/or diverse forms of transmissions of various anti-Islamic polemics. When compared to later Byzantine polemics, the analysis of the anthology reveals how anti-Islamic knowledge transferred between different authors, texts, periods, and contexts. The chapter sheds light on the intellectual backgrounds of the authors and contexts of their works.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- Prolegomena to Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān 1
- An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 7
- Qur’ānic Letter versus Spirit: Approaches to the Qur’ān in Kitāb Usṭāt al-rāhib and Masāʾil wa-ajwiba ʿaqliyya wa-ilāhiyya 45
- “Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics 77
- 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
- Michael Synkellos and His Lost Refutation of Islam in the Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Literary Tradition 125
- 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
- The Armenian Confutatio Alcorani and Its Polemical Function for the Armenian Communities in Pre-Modern Iran 173
- Anti-Islamic Polemics, Scholarship and Encyclopedism in the Greek Orthodox World: Nicholas Karatzas and His Summa Saracenica 201
- System and Muhammadan Religion by Sofroniy Vrachanski: The Bulgarian Translation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Kniga Sistima 251
- Russian Orthodox Qur’ān Translations of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century and Tatar-Muslim Responses 277
- Epilogue: Christian Reading of the Qur’ān in the Islamic World 309
- List of Contributors 317
- Index of Manuscripts and Prints 321
- Index 325
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations IX
- Prolegomena to Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān 1
- An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 7
- Qur’ānic Letter versus Spirit: Approaches to the Qur’ān in Kitāb Usṭāt al-rāhib and Masāʾil wa-ajwiba ʿaqliyya wa-ilāhiyya 45
- “Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics 77
- 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
- Michael Synkellos and His Lost Refutation of Islam in the Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Literary Tradition 125
- 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
- The Armenian Confutatio Alcorani and Its Polemical Function for the Armenian Communities in Pre-Modern Iran 173
- Anti-Islamic Polemics, Scholarship and Encyclopedism in the Greek Orthodox World: Nicholas Karatzas and His Summa Saracenica 201
- System and Muhammadan Religion by Sofroniy Vrachanski: The Bulgarian Translation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Kniga Sistima 251
- Russian Orthodox Qur’ān Translations of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century and Tatar-Muslim Responses 277
- Epilogue: Christian Reading of the Qur’ān in the Islamic World 309
- List of Contributors 317
- Index of Manuscripts and Prints 321
- Index 325
