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Syrian Christians under Islam : the first thousand years / edited by David Thomas.

By: (3rd : Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (3rd : 1998 : Woodbrooke College)
Contributor(s): Thomas, David (David Richard), 1948-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001Description: 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004120556 (acidfree); 9789004120556 (acid-free)Subject(s): Christianity -- Syria -- History | Syria -- Church history | Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937DDC classification: 261.2/7/095691 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.
Contents:
"Melkites", "Jacobites" and the Christological controversies in Arabic in third/ninth-century Syria / Sidney Griffith -- A Christian reading of the Qurʼan : the legend of Sergius-Baḥīrā and its use of Qurʼan and Sīra / Barbara Roggema -- The prophet Muḥammad as seen by Timothy I and some other Arab Christian authors / Samir K. Samir -- The martyrdom of ʻAbd al-Masīḥ, superior of Mount Sinai (Qays al-Ghassānī) / Mark N. Swanson -- Ibn Butlān in Bilād al-Shām : the career of a travelling Christian physician / Lawrence Conrad -- The Armenian intermezzo in Bilād al-Shām between the fourth/tenth and sixth/twelfth centuries / Seta B. Dadoyan -- Leaves from an illustrated Syriac lectionary of the seventh/thirteenth century / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Paul of Antioch's Letter to a Muslim friend and The letter from Cyprus / David Thomas.

"This volume contains papers from the Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (September 1998)"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index.

"Melkites", "Jacobites" and the Christological controversies in Arabic in third/ninth-century Syria / Sidney Griffith -- A Christian reading of the Qurʼan : the legend of Sergius-Baḥīrā and its use of Qurʼan and Sīra / Barbara Roggema -- The prophet Muḥammad as seen by Timothy I and some other Arab Christian authors / Samir K. Samir -- The martyrdom of ʻAbd al-Masīḥ, superior of Mount Sinai (Qays al-Ghassānī) / Mark N. Swanson -- Ibn Butlān in Bilād al-Shām : the career of a travelling Christian physician / Lawrence Conrad -- The Armenian intermezzo in Bilād al-Shām between the fourth/tenth and sixth/twelfth centuries / Seta B. Dadoyan -- Leaves from an illustrated Syriac lectionary of the seventh/thirteenth century / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Paul of Antioch's Letter to a Muslim friend and The letter from Cyprus / David Thomas.

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