Scientific Editor

Mark Beaumont, Ph.D. (2003), Open University, is Research Associate at London School of Theology. He has edited with Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth, al-Radd al-jamīl - A Fitting Refutation of the Divinity of Jesus from the Evidence of the Gospel, Attributed to Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, (Brill, 2016).

Presentation

Arab Christians and the Qurʾan from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period is a collection of essays on the use and interpretation of the Qur’an by Christians writing in Arabic in the period of Islamic rule in the Middle East up to the end of the thirteenth century. These essays originated in the seventh Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity held in Birmingham, UK, in 2013, and are edited by Mark Beaumont.

Contributors are: David Bertaina, Sidney Griffith, Sandra Keating, Michael Kuhn, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Gordon Nickel, Emilio Platti and David Thomas

Content

Table of contents
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction

1 The Qurʾan in Christian Arabic Literature: A Cursory Overview
 Sidney H. Griffith

2 Qurʾānic Textual Archaeology. Rebuilding the Story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorra
 Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

3 Manipulation of the Qurʾan in the Epistolary Exchange between al-Hāshimī and al-Kindī
 Sandra T. Keating

4 ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī on the Qurʾan
 Emilio Platti

5 ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī: Ninth Century Christian Theology and Qurʾanic Presuppositions
 Mark Beaumont

6 ‘They Find Him Written with them.’ The Impact of Q 7:157 on Muslim Interaction with Arab Christianity
 Gordon Nickel

7 With the Qur’an in Mind
 David Thomas

8 Early Islamic Perspectives of the Apostle Paul as a Narrative Framework for Taḥrīf
 Michael F. Kuhn

9 Paul ibn Rajāʾ on the History and Integrity of the Qurʾan: Copto-Islamic Controversy in Fatimid Cairo
 David Bertaina

Bibliography
Index