John of Damascus and Islam PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download John of Damascus and Islam PDF full book. Access full book title John of Damascus and Islam by Peter Schadler. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

John of Damascus and Islam

John of Damascus and Islam PDF Author: Peter Schadler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004356053
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Get Book Here

Book Description
How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term heresy persisted among Christians, and then demonstrates that John’s assessment of the beliefs and practices of Muslims has been mistakenly dismissed on assumptions he was highly biased. The practices and beliefs John ascribes to Islam have analogues in the Islamic tradition, proving that John may well represent an accurate picture of Islam as he knew it in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria and Palestine.