From Acolyte to Ṣaḥābī?: Christian Monks as Symbols of Early Confessional Fluidity in the Conversion Story of Salmān al-Fārisī
This paper will examine the narrative of Salmān al-Fārisī/"the Persian" and his conversion to Islam, as recounted in the eighth-century Sīra of Ibn Isḥāq, as a lens into the laudatory interpretation of Christian monasticism by early Muslims. This account of Salmān al-Fārisī (d. 656 CE), an...
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Harvard theological review
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Ibn-Isḥāq, Muḥammad 704-768, as- Sīra an-nabawīya
/ Salmān al-Fārisī ca. 7. Jh.
/ Monasticism
/ Interreligiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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acolyte
B Monasticism B Salmān B Sīra B Conversion |
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