John of Damascus and Islam : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schadler, Peter, 1979- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 34.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Heresy and Heresiology in Late Antiquity
  • Problems in Associating Islam with Heresy
  • Manichaeism: The Exception that Proves the Rule
  • Heresy as Opposition to the Church
  • Other Understandings of Heresy in Late Antiquity
  • Early Christian Use of Heresiology
  • Demonic Nature of Heresy
  • Heresy as the Result of Philosophical Speculation
  • Other Typical Traits of Heresiology
  • 2. Aspects of the Intellectual Background
  • Encyclopedism of Christian Palestine
  • Heresiology as History?
  • Sociological Imperative to Institution Building as a Force for Islam's Inclusion
  • From Heresiology to Panarion and from Panarion to Anacephalaeosis: The Shifting Nature of Heresiology
  • John of Damascus and non-Christian Philosophy
  • Definition of Heresy in John's Works
  • Demons and the Heresiology of John
  • 3. Life of John of Damascus, His Use of the Qur'an, and the Quality of His Knowledge of Islam
  • Life of John of Damascus
  • John of Damascus and Arabic
  • Qur'an and its Apparent Use Among Christians
  • John of Damascus and the Qur'an
  • Anastasius of Sinai and the Qur'an
  • Alleged Leo-'Umar Correspondence
  • Lives of the Prophets and Other Sources
  • 4. Islamic and Para-Islamic Traditions
  • Scholarly Accounts of Early Islam
  • Revisionist Islamic Studies and its Antecedents
  • Contemporary Islamic Studies
  • John of Damascus, the Black Stone, and the Ka'ba
  • Ka'ba, the Black Stone, and the Maqam Ibrahim in the Islamic Tradition
  • Untraditional Perspective
  • Damascene's Observations Given the Untraditional Perspective
  • Rivers in Paradise
  • Monk and an-Nasara
  • Female Circumcision
  • Pillars of Faith
  • 5. John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam
  • Problems Authenticating Abu Qurrah's Greek Corpus
  • Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam
  • Theodore, the Qur'an, and Muhammad
  • Arian Monk
  • Theodore and Heresy
  • Abu Qurrah and John of Damascus: Some Differences and Conclusions.