Table of Contents:
  • Muslims as crypto-idolaters: a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East / Barbara Roggema
  • Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyarat Books / Hilary Kilpatrick
  • Habib ibn Khidma Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III) / Sandra Toenies Keating
  • 'Ammar al-Basri on the Incarnation / Mark Beaumont
  • The Christian al-Ma'mun Tradition / Mark N. Swanson
  • Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wadi Natrun: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period / Lucy-Anne Hunt
  • The 'Philosophical Life' in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahya Ibn 'Adi's Kitab tahdhib al-akhlaq / Sidney Griffith
  • Yahya Ibn 'Adi and the Theory of Iktisab / Emilio Platti
  • Language and thought in Kitab al-majdal, bab 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa / Bo Holmberg
  • The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on the Gospels / Julian Faultless
  • The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth-eight/fourteenth centuries) / Martin Accad
  • A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary / Gabriel Said Reynolds
  • Early Muslim Responses to Christianity / David Thomas.