Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes

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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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Volume 6 | The European Qur'an

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Prolegomena to Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān Octavian-Adrian Negoiță Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew Bert Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Qur’ānic Letter versus Spirit: Approaches to the Qur’ān in Kitāb Usṭāt al-rāhib and Masāʾil wa-ajwiba ʿaqliyya wa-ilāhiyya Barbara Roggema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
“Becoming All Things to All People”: Positive Readings of Qur’ānic Christianity in Arabic Christian Apologetics Thomas A. Carlson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Manolis Ulbricht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Michael Synkellos and His Lost Refutation of Islam in the Medieval Byzantine-Slavic Literary Tradition Zofia A. Brzozowska and Mirosław J. Leszka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Alessandro Gori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Armenian Confutatio Alcorani and Its Polemical Function for the Armenian Communities in Pre-Modern Iran Anna Ohanjanyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Anti-Islamic Polemics, Scholarship and Encyclopedism in the Greek Orthodox World: Nicholas Karatzas and His Summa Saracenica Octavian-Adrian Negoiță Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
System and Muhammadan Religion by Sofroniy Vrachanski: The Bulgarian Translation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Kniga Sistima Nadezhda Alexandrova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Russian Orthodox Qur’ān Translations of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century and Tatar-Muslim Responses Stefan Schreiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Epilogue: Christian Reading of the Qur’ān in the Islamic World Jan Loop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index of Manuscripts and Prints Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

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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

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Scholars of History, Qu'ranic Studies, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies and Theology

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