
Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology
David Thomas(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 29. August 2008
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-90-04-16935-7 (ISBN)
Description
By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God's relationship with it. They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief, building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity. Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi' al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-Baqillani and ?Abd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious attention as a rival to Islam.
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English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
787 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-16935-7 (9789004169357)
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David Thomas, Ph.D. (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Christian-Muslim relations including Christian-Muslim Polemic during the Crusades (Brill, 2005).
Content
Foreword
Muslim Theologians and Christian Doctrines
Al-Nashi? al-Akbar
The refutation Christianity from al-Nashi?'s Fi al-Maqalat
Abu Man?ur al-Maturidi
The refutation of Christianity from al-Maturidi's Kitab al-taw?id
Abu Bakr al-Baqillani
The refutation of Christianity from al-Baqillani's Kitab al-tamhid
?Abd al-Jabbar ibn A?mad al-Hamadhani
The refutation of Christianity from ?Abd al-Jabbar's Al-mughni fi abwab al-taw?id wa-al ?adl
Bibliography
Index
Muslim Theologians and Christian Doctrines
Al-Nashi? al-Akbar
The refutation Christianity from al-Nashi?'s Fi al-Maqalat
Abu Man?ur al-Maturidi
The refutation of Christianity from al-Maturidi's Kitab al-taw?id
Abu Bakr al-Baqillani
The refutation of Christianity from al-Baqillani's Kitab al-tamhid
?Abd al-Jabbar ibn A?mad al-Hamadhani
The refutation of Christianity from ?Abd al-Jabbar's Al-mughni fi abwab al-taw?id wa-al ?adl
Bibliography
Index