This volume comprises an edition and English translation of the response in Arabic made by the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi to a letter sent to him by anonymous Christians from
This is the first complete English translation of al-Radd al-jamil attributed to al-Ghazali (d. 1111), the most detailed refutation of the divinity of Jesus by a Muslim author in the classical period
In Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God, Sara Husseini examines the writings of three ninth century Christian theologians, analysing their engagement with Islamic theology in order to art
The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible examines the history of a translation begun by American missionaries within the changing social context of late Ottoman Syria, and utilized an internatio
As is pointed out in the introduction to this work, there are few studies of the reactions to missionaries by those proselytized. This is only one of the previously unexplored themes that Ryad (religi
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History. Volume 5 (CMR 5) is a history of all the known works on Christian-Muslim relations in the period 1350-1500. It comprises introductory essays and
(CMR 6) covers all the works on Christian-Muslim relations in the years 1500-1600. The essays and detailed entries it contains give descriptions, evaluations and comprehensive bibliographical details
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, volume 8 (CMR 8) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Northern and Eastern Europe. Its detailed en
While kings and generals worried about the military threat of the Ottoman Empire and the armies of Sultan Suleyman (1520-66) in the Balkans, Luther (1483-1546) worried that Islam would lure Christians
Debate between Christians and Muslims began even during the lifetime of the seventh-century Prophet Muhammad, but by the beginning of the ninth century, both sides has exhausted their own arsenal of s
The 19 papers portray the centrality of the Bible, both as an object of study and as an instrument of argument, in the Arabic Churches and in their relations with early Islam. It was a major source of
(CMR 7) is a history of all the known works on relations from Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America in the period 1500-1600. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments
