John of Damascus and Islam: Christian Heresiology and the Intellectual Background to Earliest Christian-Muslim RelationsBRILL, 05/12/2017 - 274 من الصفحات How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term heresy persisted among Christians, and then demonstrates that John’s assessment of the beliefs and practices of Muslims has been mistakenly dismissed on assumptions he was highly biased. The practices and beliefs John ascribes to Islam have analogues in the Islamic tradition, proving that John may well represent an accurate picture of Islam as he knew it in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria and Palestine. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Heresy and Heresiology in Late Antiquity | 20 |
Chapter 2 Aspects of the Intellectual Background | 49 |
Chapter 3 The Life of John of Damascus His Use of the Qurʾan and the Quality of His Knowledge of Islam | 97 |
Chapter 4 Islamic and ParaIslamic Traditions | 141 |
Chapter 5 John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah on Islam | 182 |
Conclusion | 209 |
Appendix 1 Greek Text and English Translation of On Heresies 100 | 218 |
Appendix 2 Potential Qurʾanic References in On Heresies 100 | 234 |
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