Arab Christians and the Qurʾan
from the Origins of Islam
Leiden (NL): Brill 2018, 240 pp., illustr.
David Bertaina, Sidney Griffith,
Sandra Keating, Michael Kuhn,
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala,
Gordon Nickel, Emilio Platti and
David Thomas
Editor: Mark Beaumont, Ph.D. (2003), Open University,is Research Associate at London School of Theology. He has edited with Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth, al-Radd al-jamīl A Fitting Refutation of the Divinity of Jesus from the Evidence of the Gospel, Attributed to Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, (Brill, 2016).
Contents — Notes on Contributors — Introduction
1 The Qurʾan in Christian Arabic Literature:
A Cursory Overview — Sidney H. Griffith
2 Qurʾānic Textual Archaeology. Rebuilding the Story
of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra — Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
3 Manipulation of the Qurʾan in the Epistolary Exchange
between al-Hāshimī and al-Kindī — Sandra T. Keating
4 ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī on the Qurʾan — Emilio Platti
5 ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī: Ninth Century Christian Theology
and Qurʾanic Presuppositions — Mark Beaumont
6 ‘They Find Him Written with them.’ The Impact of Q 7:157
on Muslim Interaction with Arab Christianity — Gordon Nickel
7 With the Qur’an in Mind — David Thomas
8 Early Islamic Perspectives of the Apostle Paul
as a Narrative Framework for Taḥrīf — Michael F. Kuhn
9 Paul ibn Rajāʾ on the History and Integrity
of the Qurʾan: Copto-Islamic Controversy in Fatimid Cairo — David Bertaina
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Bibliography — Index