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This is a study of the intellectual history of the Andalusī Christians (alias Mozarabs) of Spain based on their Arabic and Latin polemical writings against Islam, c. 1050-1200.
The first part of the book examines how these authors drew on earlier Oriental Arab-Christian theology, twelfth-century Latin-Christian theology, and the foundational texts of Islam itself — the Qur’ān and ḥadīt — for polemical purposes. The second part is a critical edition and English translation of the most important source, the Liber denudationis siue ostensionis aut patefaciens (alias Contrarietas alfolica).
Since it describes how the Andalusī Christians participated in the pluralistic intellectual milieu in which they lived, this study will be of interest to historians of medieval Spain's minority groups, Christian-Muslim relations, and the Arab-Christian tradition.
The first part of the book examines how these authors drew on earlier Oriental Arab-Christian theology, twelfth-century Latin-Christian theology, and the foundational texts of Islam itself — the Qur’ān and ḥadīt — for polemical purposes. The second part is a critical edition and English translation of the most important source, the Liber denudationis siue ostensionis aut patefaciens (alias Contrarietas alfolica).
Since it describes how the Andalusī Christians participated in the pluralistic intellectual milieu in which they lived, this study will be of interest to historians of medieval Spain's minority groups, Christian-Muslim relations, and the Arab-Christian tradition.
Price: $171.00
Pages: 410
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
01 September 1994
ISBN: 9789004099104
Format: Other
'Le texte latin est bien édité... C'est là une bonne contribution à l'une des littératures arabes la plus mal connue.'
Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 1995.
'...this is a valuable albeit highly specialized study...'
Bernard F. Reilly, The Catholic Historical Review, 1995.
'...Professor Burman's study offers a fine exercise in intellectual "microhistory"...'
Mark D. Johnston, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, 1996.
Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 1995.
'...this is a valuable albeit highly specialized study...'
Bernard F. Reilly, The Catholic Historical Review, 1995.
'...Professor Burman's study offers a fine exercise in intellectual "microhistory"...'
Mark D. Johnston, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, 1996.
Thomas Burman, Ph.D. (1991) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the author of an article on Andalusī-Christians in Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam, (New York, 1994).