The legend of Sergius Baḥīrā: eastern Christian apologetics and apocalyptic in response to Islam
The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Bahira -- The apocalypse of Bahira -- Bahira's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology -- Prot...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Arabic Classical Syriac |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2009
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| In: |
History of Christian-Muslim relations (9)
Year: 2009 |
| Series/Journal: | History of Christian-Muslim relations
9 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Baḥīrā
/ Islam
/ Apologetics
/ Apocalypticism
/ History 600-900
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam
Relations
Christianity
History
B Legend of Baḥīrā B Christianity and other religions Islam History B Thesis B Spring B Apologetics History Middle Ages, 600-1500 B Apocalyptic Literature History and criticism |
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| Summary: | The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Bahira -- The apocalypse of Bahira -- Bahira's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology -- Protection and recognition-Bahira and Q 5:82 -- The physics of heaven -- The Qur'an against Islam -- The legend outside the legend -- Bahira the source -- Bahira the heretic -- Bahira the false witness -- Bahira the victim -- Jewish traditions about Bahira -- Bahira the forecaster -- Concluding discussion -- Texts and translations -- The recensions and the manuscript tradition -- Some characteristics of the recensions -- Textual genealogy -- Manuscripts -- Conspectus siglorum -- Methodological considerations -- The East-Syrian recension -- The West-Syrian recension -- The short Arabic recension -- The long Arabic recension |
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| Item Description: | Text engl., arab. und syr., Einl. und Komm. engl |
| Physical Description: | XII, 579 S., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-16730-8 |
