عنوان

Outbidding Catholicity. Early Islamic Attitudes toward Christians and Christianity

شماره

LA110484

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Outbidding Catholicity. Early Islamic Attitudes toward Christians and Christianity

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jason Dean

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

How did early Islam gain its understanding of Christians and Christianity? How did it react to Christian claims of universality? To answer these questions, this article first identifies passages pertaining to the Christian religion in representative texts of the three main bodies of literature produced by the first Muslim writers and editors: the Qur'ān, the Hadith and the Sira. This data is then analyzed into five ideal-types of Islamic attitudes toward Christians and Christianity: 1) affirmations of the truth of the Gospel, 2) descriptions of Christians as true believers, 3) descriptions of Christians as sectarians, 4) accusations of disbelief (kufr) and 5) accusations of idolatry (shirk). The assertion of an historical relationship between sectarianism, disbelief and idolatry led to subordinating the Muslim-Christian dialogue on the recognition of the unicity of God, which could be conceived of as providing the basis either for a restricted religious pluralism or for an Islamic universalism. How did early Islam gain its understanding of Christians and Christianity? How did it react to Christian claims of universality? To answer these questions, this article first identifies passages pertaining to the Christian religion in representative texts of the three main bodies of literature produced by the first Muslim writers and editors: the Qur'ān, the Hadith and the Sira. This data is then analyzed into five ideal-types of Islamic attitudes toward Christians and Christianity: 1) affirmations of the truth of the Gospel, 2) descriptions of Christians as true believers, 3) descriptions of Christians as sectarians, 4) accusations of disbelief (kufr) and 5) accusations of idolatry (shirk). The assertion of an historical relationship between sectarianism, disbelief and idolatry led to subordinating the Muslim-Christian dialogue on the recognition of the unicity of God, which could be conceived of as providing the basis either for a restricted religious pluralism or for an Islamic universalism.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

201-225

عنوان

Exchange

شماره جلد

38/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-543X

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS

اصطلاح موضوعی

COMMUNITARIANISM

اصطلاح موضوعی

EARLY ISLAM

اصطلاح موضوعی

ONE-WORLD CONCEPT

اصطلاح موضوعی

PLURALISM

اصطلاح موضوعی

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jason Dean

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157254309X449700

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y