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The identity and witness of Arab pre-Islamic Arab Christianity: The Arabic language and the Bible
This article argues that Arab Christianity has had a unique place in the history of World Christianity. Rooted in a biblical witness, the origins and history of Arab Christianity have been largely forgotten or ignored.
David D. Grafton
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Quss Ibn Sa’ida al-Iyadi (6th–7th cent. A.D.), Bishop of Najran: An Arabic and Islamic Cultural Hero [PDF]
The article deals with the half-legendary Quss Ibn Sa’ida from an ancient North Arab tribe Iyad, who is believed to have been a bishop of the Yemeni city of Najran and a monk (anachorete).
Dziekan, Marek M.
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Macarius of Sinai’s Treatise “On Fasting during Cheesefare Week” [PDF]
This article off ers an analysis and a Russian translation of Macarius of Sinai’s (archbishop, from before 1230–1252) unpublished Arabic treatise “On Fasting during Cheesefare Week”.
Alexander Treiger
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The Melkites were one of the eastern Christian communities that came under Islamic rule following the Arab conquests. To stay in conversation with their Muslim codebaters and political leaders, the Melkites were the first among the Christian groups in ...
Phillipus J. Buys, Samuel Nwokoro
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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Trajectories in the Development of Islamic Theological Thought: the Synthesis of Kalam [PDF]
The field of Islamic theology (kalam) is not merely a receptacle for the presentation of the creedal statements and doctrinal catechisms of Islam; it derives its raison d’être not only from the articulation and elucidation of the doctrines of faith, but ...
Shah, Mustafa
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This contribution discusses Ralph Lee’s volume Symbolic Interpretations in Ethiopic and Early Syriac Literature, in particular his proposal about what were the channels of cultural transmission between Syriac and Ethiopic Christian literatures which ...
Alberto
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Pseudo-Arabic is a form of ornament, derived from Arabic script, which appears in both Islamic and Christian contexts from the 10th century onwards. The city of Bari in south-east Italy, and its hinterland, boasts a number of examples of this motif. This
Clare Vernon
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A review of Vollandt, R. (2015). Arabic versions of the Pentateuch: A comparative study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources. Boston: Brill. 347 pp. $149.00.
Cutforth-Anderson, Lisa
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