RT Book
T1 The Patriarch and the Caliph: an eighth-century dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi : a parallel English-Arabic text
T2 Eastern Christian texts
JF Eastern Christian texts
A2 Timotheus, I., Nestorianus 728-823
A2 Mahdī, al-, Abbasidenreich, Kalif 743-785
A2 Samīr, Samīr Ḫalīl 1938-
A2 Samīr, Samīr Ḫalīl 1938-
A2 Nasry, Wafik
A2 Nasry, Wafik
LA English
LA Arabic
PP Provo, Utah
PB Brigham Young University Press
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/864664575
AB "This book records the 781 A.D. "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and Timothy I, the first Nestorian Patriarch in Baghdad. It deals with perennial questions of faith and creed that are as alive today as they were in the eighth century. The collated text presented here is of an abridged sixteenth century Arabic version based on Timothy I's Syriac original. The abundance of various versions of this debate between the patriarch and the caliph is a testimony to its historic importance. It is remarkable both for its intellectual richness and for the courtesy it displays on the part of both interlocutors"--
AB "The Patriarch and the Caliph presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich debate between adherents of Islam and of Christianity is a testimony to its historic importance. Of particular note is the mutual respect shown between the interlocutors in a period when Islam was the dominant political and intellectual influence in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean worlds.  This volume collates an abridged sixteenth-century Arabic version based on Timothy I's Syriac original. Parallel English translations accompany the Arabic. Including annotations, indexes, glossaries, and bibliographies to further assist the reader, The Patriarch and the Caliph reveals important insights into the complex relationship between two historical figures, and through them, two major world religions"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BT1100
SN 9780842529891
K1 Timotheus : I : Patriarch of the Church of the East : 727 or 728-823
K1 Mahdī : Caliph : -785
K1 Assyrian Church of the East : Relations : Islam
K1 Assyrian Church of the East : History : Sources
K1 Assyrian Church of the East : Doctrines : Early works to 1800
K1 Apologetics : Early works to 1800
K1 Islam : Relations : Church of the East