A Curious and Delicate Correspondence: The Burhān of Ibn al-Munajjim and the Jawāb of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq

A Curious and Delicate Correspondence: The Burhān of Ibn al-Munajjim and the Jawāb of Ḥunayn ibn IsḥāqIslam and Christian-Muslim RelationsSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6HFIVF8S/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Mark N.SwansonA Curious and Delicate Correspondence: The Burhān of Ibn al-Munajjim and the Jawāb of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāqhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/6HFIVF8Shttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/6HFIVF8Shttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/6HFIVF8SIslam and Christian-Muslim Relations22:22011173-183An important collection of ninth-century apologetic texts in Arabic consists in the Burhān of one Ibn al-Munajjim, in which he attempts to construct a proof of Muhammad’s prophethood, and separate responses by the Christian scholars Hunayn ibn Ishāq and Qustā ibn Lūqā. Although Zilio-Grandi and Samir’s recent monograph Una corrispondenza islamo-cristiana sull’origine divina dell’Islam (Turin, 2003) focuses exclusively on the Ibn al-Munajjim–Qustā exchange, the present article argues that, in the form in which the texts have been preserved, Ibn al-Munajjim’s Burhān is addressed to Hunayn, who responds to it directly. An analysis of Hunayn’s Jawāb (a) explicates his strategy in responding to the Burhān, and (b) suggests that the Jawāb is a carefully constructed unity (rather than a few paragraphs of personal response with an appended ‘true religion’ apology). The article concludes that interreligious apologetic could be a delicate and potentially dangerous matter for Christian scholars at the Abbasid court of al-Mutawakkil and his successors. Swanson, Mark N. “A Curious and Delicate Correspondence: The Burhān of Ibn al-Munajjim and the Jawāb of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq.” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 22:2 (2011): 173–83. Mark N. Swanson, A Curious and Delicate Correspondence: The Burhān of Ibn al-Munajjim and the Jawāb of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 22:2 (2011): 173–83.Arab ChristiansHunayn ibn IshaqIX CEMuslim-Christian relationsNestoriansVII-XVIII CEpolemic