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Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān

Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes
  • Edited by: Octavian-Adrian Negoiță
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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This volume explores how Eastern Christians of various religious traditions engaged with Islam and its Holy Book. By employing a long durée perspective, the volume will explore both continuities and disruptions, as well as diverse ideological positions among the Eastern Christians in their approach towards Islamic tenets, religious practices and interpretations of the Qur’an. The essays included in the volume investigate texts written in Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Ethiopian, Greek, Slavonic and Russian. The essays discuss the knowledge regimes of text production, and shed light on the Eastern Christians’ conceptualization of Islam until the dawn of modernity.

This volume is a contribution to the entangled and cross-cultural history of Eastern Christians with Islam through the centuries, from the Mediterranean to Russia via the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Eastern Christians intellectual responses to the religious challenges posed by Islam were shaped by diverse multicultural and multi-confessional contexts, which ultimately played a significant role in defining their religious identity and the dynamics of communal life

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Octavian-Adrian Negoiță, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgements

    V
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    Contents

    VII
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    Abbreviations

    IX
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    Prolegomena to Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān

    1
    Octavian-Adrian Negoiță
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    An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew

    7
    Bert Jacobs
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    Qur’ānic Letter versus Spirit: Approaches to the Qur’ān in Kitāb Usṭāt al-rāhib and Masāʾil wa-ajwiba ʿaqliyya wa-ilāhiyya

    45
    Barbara Roggema
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    “Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics

    77
    Thomas A. Carlson
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    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
    Manolis Ulbricht
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    Michael Synkellos and His Lost Refutation of Islam in the Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Literary Tradition

    125
    Zofia A. Brzozowska and Mirosław J. Leszka
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    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
    Alessandro Gori
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    The Armenian Confutatio Alcorani and Its Polemical Function for the Armenian Communities in Pre-Modern Iran

    173
    Anna Ohanjanyan
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    Anti-Islamic Polemics, Scholarship and Encyclopedism in the Greek Orthodox World: Nicholas Karatzas and His Summa Saracenica

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    Octavian-Adrian Negoiță
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    System and Muhammadan Religion by Sofroniy Vrachanski: The Bulgarian Translation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Kniga Sistima

    251
    Nadezhda Alexandrova
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    Russian Orthodox Qur’ān Translations of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century and Tatar-Muslim Responses

    277
    Stefan Schreiner
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    Epilogue: Christian Reading of the Qur’ān in the Islamic World

    309
    Jan Loop
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    List of Contributors

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    Index of Manuscripts and Prints

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    Index

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eBook published on:
April 21, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111140766
Hardcover published on:
April 21, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111096070
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
330
Coloured Illustrations:
9
Tables:
8
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140766
eBook ISBN: 9783111140766
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111096070
Keywords for this book
Christian-Muslim relations; Christianity; Islam; Qu'ran
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of History, Qu'ranic Studies, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies and Theology
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