The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period

Contents: Preface Comparative religion in the apologetics of the first Christian Arabic theologians Habib ibn Abu Rat'itah, a Christian mutakallim of the first Abbasid century 'Ammar al-Basri's Kitab al-Burhan: Christian Kalam in the first Abbasid century The apologetic treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian texts: from Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286) Muslims and Church councils The apology of Theodore Abu Qurrah Muhammad and the monk BahA(R)rA : reflections on a Syriac and Arabic text from early Abbasid times The Kitab Misbah al-'Aql of Severus ibn al-Muqaffa': a profile of the Christian creed in Arabic in 10th-century Egypt The Muslim philosopher al-Kindi and his Christian readers: three Arab Christian texts on 'The dissipation of sorrows' From Aramaic to Arabic: the languages of the monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods Bashir/Beser: boon companion of the Byzantine emperor Leo III: the Islamic recension of his story in Leiden Oriental MS 951 (2) Index.