Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 397-409
Keywords:
Bible Influence
;
Muslim converts from Judaism
;
Muslim converts from Christianity
;
Islam Relations 16th century
;
Judaism
;
Polemics
Abstract:
It is well known that many of the classical works of Muslim polemics against Christianity and Judaism were written by converts to Islam from these religions.¹ Among the Christian converts, the onetime Christian Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 251/865) and the erstwhile friar Anselm de Turmeda, better known as ʿAbd Allāh al-Turǧumān (d. ca. 828/1424) come to mind; former Jews who attacked the religion of their ancestors include Samawʾal al-Maġribī (d. 570/1175), Saʿīd b. Ḥasan of Alexandria (wrote 720/1320), ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Islāmī (wrote ca. 798/1395), and the unknown author of the tract Taʾyīd al-milla, who probably wrote in the fourteenth...
Note:
Appeared previously in "Journal Asiatique" 297 (2009) 131-151.
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