The Patriarch and the Caliph: an eighth-century dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi : a parallel English-Arabic text

"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 colla...

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Contributors: Timotheus, I., Nestorianus 728-823 (Contributor) ; Mahdī, al-, Abbasidenreich, Kalif 743-785 (Contributor) ; Samīr, Samīr Ḫalīl 1938- (Editor, Translator) ; Nasry, Wafik (Editor, Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Arabic
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Published: Provo, Utah Brigham Young University Press [2018]
In: Eastern Christian texts (7)
Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Eastern Christian texts 7
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mahdi Abbasids, Caliph 743-785 / Assyrian Church / Abbasiden 749-1258 / Islam / Apologetics
Further subjects:B Assyrian Church of the East History Sources
B Apologetics Early works to 1800
B Assyrian Church of the East Doctrines Early works to 1800
B Assyrian Church of the East Relations Islam
B Timotheus Patriarch of the Church of the East (727 or 728-823)
B Islam Relations Church of the East
B Mahdī Caliph (-785)