Muslim-Christian Polemic during the Crusades
The Letter from the People of Cyprus and Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī’s Response
Biographical note
Rifaat Ebied is Foundation Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively in the field of Semitic Studies generally and on Christian Arabic and Syriac studies in particular, most recently Petri Callinicensis Patriarchae Antiocheni: Tractatus Contra Damianum (Louvain 1994/1996/1998/2003).
David Thomas, Ph.D. (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Reader in Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. He has published extensively on Christian-Muslim relations, most recently Early Muslim Polemic against Christianity (Cambridge, 2002) and Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule (Brill, 2003).
David Thomas, Ph.D. (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Reader in Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. He has published extensively on Christian-Muslim relations, most recently Early Muslim Polemic against Christianity (Cambridge, 2002) and Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule (Brill, 2003).
Readership
Students and researchers interested in the history and development of Christian-Muslim relations, and in the history of medieval Islam, theologians, historians and Islamicists, both those who are and those who are not acquainted with classical Arabic.
Table of contents
Preface
- The Letters and their Authors
- The Manuscripts of the Letters
- The Language of the Letters
- The Letter from the People of Cyprus
- Al-Dimashqī’s Response to the Letter from the People of Cyprus
- Introduction
- Sections 1-13
- Bibliography
- Index
- The Letters and their Authors
- The Manuscripts of the Letters
- The Language of the Letters
- The Letter from the People of Cyprus
- Al-Dimashqī’s Response to the Letter from the People of Cyprus
- Introduction
- Sections 1-13
- Bibliography
- Index
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