The legend of Sergius Bahira: eastern Christian apologetics and apocalyptic in response to Islam/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston:
Brill,
c2009
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| Series: | History of Christian-Muslim relations (Brill)
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Table of Contents:
- The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam
- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory
- The Islamic Bahira
- The apocalypse of Bahira
- Bahira's teachings
- Breaking crosses
- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology
- Protection and recognition-Bahira and Q 5:82
- The physics of heaven
- The Qur'an against Islam
- The legend outside the legend
- Bahira the source
- Bahira the heretic
- Bahira the false witness
- Bahira the victim
- Jewish traditions about Bahira
- Bahira the forecaster
- Concluding discussion
- Texts and translations
- The recensions and the manuscript tradition
- Some characteristics of the recensions
- Textual genealogy
- Manuscripts
- Conspectus siglorum
- Methodological considerations
- The East-Syrian recension
- The West-Syrian recension
- The short Arabic recension
- The long Arabic recension.