Voices of the Converted: Christian Apostate Literature in Medieval Islam

Voices of the Converted: Christian Apostate Literature in Medieval IslamSyriaca.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/UGUVW7TI/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Clint R.HackenburgVoices of the Converted: Christian Apostate Literature in Medieval Islamhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UGUVW7TIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/UGUVW7TIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/UGUVW7TI2015This dissertation seeks to discuss the dialectical ( kalām) and scriptural reasoning used to justify Christian conversion to Islam during the medieval period (750 - 1492 C.E.). With this objective in mind, I will compare and contrast the manners in which five different Arabophone authors, `Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabarī (d. ca. 860), al-Hasan ibn Ayyūb (fl. ca. mid-tenth century), Nar ibn Yahya (d. 1163 or 1193), Yusuf al-Lubnani (d. ca. mid-thirteenth century), and Anselm Turmeda (d. 1423), all Christian converts to Islam, utilized biblical and qur'ānic proof-texts alongside dialectical reasoning to invalidate the various tenets of Christianity while concurrently endorsing Islamic doctrine. These authors discuss a wide variety of contentious issues pervading medieval Christian-Muslim dialogue. Within the doctrinal sphere, these authors primarily discuss the Trinity and Incarnation, the nature of God, and the corruption of the Bible ( tahrīf). Hackenburg, Clint R. “Voices of the Converted: Christian Apostate Literature in Medieval Islam.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. Clint R. Hackenburg, Voices of the Converted: Christian Apostate Literature in Medieval Islam (Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015).Ali at-TabariIX CEMuslim-Christian relationsVII-XVIII CEapostasyconversionpolemic