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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Diego R.Sarrió Cucarella‘On How to Discern the Truth of Religion,’ by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq: The Impersonal Recensionhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/5HYU3QJLhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/5HYU3QJLhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/5HYU3QJLIslamochristiana452019This article contributes to the study of Christian Arabic literature by providing an introduction and English translation of the treatise entitled <i>Kayfiyyat idrāk ḥaqīqat al-diyāna</i>, ‘On how to discern the truth of religion’, by the prominent Baghdad-based Nestorian physician, scholar and translator, Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (808-873). This work constitutes a defence of Christianity in a multi-religious milieu marked by the ascendency of Islam. Ḥunayn discusses therein the reasons that lead people to adhere to a particular religion, his main contention being that the truth or falsity of any religion can be ascertained by examining the reasons why it was originally accepted.
Sarrió Cucarella, Diego R. “‘On How to Discern the Truth of Religion,’ by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq: The Impersonal Recension.” Islamochristiana 45, no. 155–163 (2019).
Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella, ‘On How to Discern the Truth of Religion,’ by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq: The Impersonal Recension,Islamochristiana 45, no. 155–163 (2019).Arab ChristiansHunayn ibn IshaqIX CEMuslim-Christian relationsNestoriansVII-XVIII CEapologeticslawprimary sources [Arabic] - English translation