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The Patriarch and the Caliph. An Eighth-Century Dialogue Between Timothy I and Al-Mahdi.
Samir Khalil . Ed(S): Samir
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hardcover. Editor(s): Samir, Samir Khalil. Translator(s): Nasry, Wafik. Series: BYU - Eastern Christian Texts. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The Patriarch and the Caliph presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich debate between adherents of Islam and of Christianity is a testimony to its historic importance. Of particular note is the mutual respect shown between the interlocutors in a period when Islam was the dominant political and intellectual influence in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. This volume collates an abridged sixteenth-century Arabic version based on Timothy I's Syriac original. Parallel English translations accompany ... Read more
The Patriarch and the Caliph presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich debate between adherents of Islam and of Christianity is a testimony to its historic importance. Of particular note is the mutual respect shown between the interlocutors in a period when Islam was the dominant political and intellectual influence in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. This volume collates an abridged sixteenth-century Arabic version based on Timothy I's Syriac original. Parallel English translations accompany ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Brigham Young University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
BYU - Eastern Christian Texts
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Utah, United States
ISBN
9780842529891
SKU
V9780842529891
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About Samir Khalil . Ed(S): Samir
Samir Khalil Samir is professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. Wafik Nasry is professor of Arab Christian heritage, Islam, and interreligious dialogue at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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