IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1127: Christianity in the Islamic World, II: Theology and Literature
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Krisztina Szilágyi, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Hidemi Takahashi, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo |
| Paper 1127-a | Disceptatio Christiani et Saraceni: Dialogical Format and Theology as Signs of Contact (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Theology |
| Paper 1127-b | Three for One: Yaḥyā ibn 'Adī's Treatise on the Unity of God and Its Two 11th-Century Appropriations (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Philosophy |
| Paper 1127-c | The Arabic Incipits in Islamic and Christian Works as Bibliographic Descriptions (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Theological writing, polemical as well as apologetical, were emblematic features of Christian literature in the Islamic world, its arguments tried and tested in a long tradition of disputation. In this session, Kitsos examines an early Christian polemical treatise against Islam written in Greek in Islamic Palestine, looking for real-life contact between Christians and Muslims. Next Aubin considers Christian apologetics: he traces the reception of a Christian dialectical motif by Christian thinkers of different doctrinal outlooks. Finally Serikoff compares the incipits in the works of Muslim and Christian Arab authors and suggests, for the latter, a merging of two traditions. |