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Arab Christians and the Qurʾan from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period is a collection of essays on the use and interpretation of the Qur’an by Christians writing in Arabic in the period of Islamic rule in the Middle East up to the end of the thirteenth century. These essays originated in the seventh Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity held in Birmingham, UK, in 2013, and are edited by Mark Beaumont. Contributors are: David Bertaina, Sidney Griffith, Sandra Keating, Michael Kuhn, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Gordon Nickel, Emilio Platti and David Thomas

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Author:   Mark Beaumont
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   35
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9789004360693

ISBN 10:   9004360697
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   29 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 The Qurʾan in Christian Arabic Literature: A Cursory Overview  Sidney H. Griffith 2 Qurʾānic Textual Archaeology. Rebuilding the Story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra  Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala 3 Manipulation of the Qurʾan in the Epistolary Exchange between al-Hāshimī and al-Kindī  Sandra T. Keating 4 ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī on the Qurʾan  Emilio Platti 5 ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī: Ninth Century Christian Theology and Qurʾanic Presuppositions  Mark Beaumont 6 ‘They Find Him Written with them.’ The Impact of Q 7:157 on Muslim Interaction with Arab Christianity  Gordon Nickel 7 With the Qur’an in Mind  David Thomas 8 Early Islamic Perspectives of the Apostle Paul as a Narrative Framework for Taḥrīf  Michael F. Kuhn 9 Paul ibn Rajāʾ on the History and Integrity of the Qurʾan: Copto-Islamic Controversy in Fatimid Cairo  Dav id Bertaina Bibliography Index

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Mark Beaumont, Ph.D. (2003), Open University, is Research Associate at London School of Theology. He has edited with Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth, al-Radd al-jamīl - A Fitting Refutation of the Divinity of Jesus from the Evidence of the Gospel, Attributed to Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, (Brill, 2016).

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