Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1127
Title	Christianity in the Islamic World, II: Theology and Literature
Date/Time	Wednesday 5 July 2017: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Krisztina Szilágyi, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair	Hidemi Takahashi, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo
Paper 1127-a	Disceptatio Christiani et Saraceni: Dialogical Format and Theology as Signs of Contact (Language: English) Michail Kitsos, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Theology
Paper 1127-b	Three for One: Yaḥyā ibn 'Adī's Treatise on the Unity of God and Its Two 11th-Century Appropriations (Language: English) Nicholas Allan Aubin, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Philosophy
Paper 1127-c	The Arabic Incipits in Islamic and Christian Works as Bibliographic Descriptions (Language: English) Nikolaj Serikoff, Independent Scholar, London Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Theological writing, polemical as well as apologetical, were emblematic features of Christian literature in the Islamic world, its arguments tried and tested in a long tradition of disputation. In this session, Kitsos examines an early Christian polemical treatise against Islam written in Greek in Islamic Palestine, looking for real-life contact between Christians and Muslims. Next Aubin considers Christian apologetics: he traces the reception of a Christian dialectical motif by Christian thinkers of different doctrinal outlooks. Finally Serikoff compares the incipits in the works of Muslim and Christian Arab authors and suggests, for the latter, a merging of two traditions.