RT Article
T1 Muslim readings of John's Gospel in theʾAbbasid period
JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
VO 19
IS 2
SP 179
OP 197
A1 Beaumont, Mark
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/597092206
AB Muslims in the ʾAbbasid period showed three broad attitudes to Christian scripture. First, there was the view of those such as al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm (d. 860 CE) and 'Alī al-Ṭabarī (d. c. 855 CE), who accepted elements in the gospels that supported the Qur'an. Second, there was the approach of others such as Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥazm (d. 1064 CE), who rejected the gospels as largely fictitious accounts. A third approach, found in the writing of Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 1014 CE) and in A Fitting Refutation of the Divinity of Jesus attributed to Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111 CE), was to regard sayings of Jesus in John's Gospel that seemed to be a claim to divine status as metaphors for a spiritual condition that could be experienced by other believers, and which Muslims could therefore accept as genuine. This Fitting Refutation engaged more perceptively with Christian scripture than any other known Muslim writing in the cAbbasid period.
K1 Johannesevangelium
K1 Christologie
K1 Dialog
K1 Christentum
K1 Islam
K1 Mittelalter
K1 Gospel according to John
K1 Christology
K1 Dialogue
K1 Christianity
K1 Middle Ages
DO 10.1080/09596410801923691