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Papers by Martin Accad
Martin Accad has been leading peacemaking initiatives in Lebanon for years. Hear why he thinks ke... more Martin Accad has been leading peacemaking initiatives in Lebanon for years. Hear why he thinks kerygmatic peacebuilding is so essential to the Christian faith and how he has creatively engaged with his Muslim neighbors in pursuit of peace. He is joined by Muhammad Abu Zayd, the head judge of the Sunni religious court of the city of Sidon in South Lebanon. Martin and Muhammad have worked together for over 10 years in dialogue and peacemaking efforts
This final session begins with a time of discussion among pathway speakers and participants, faci... more This final session begins with a time of discussion among pathway speakers and participants, facilitated by Garry Bailey and Derran Reese. To conclude, Martin Accad and John Barton offer practical tips and suggestions for how individuals and churches can be peacemakers across the Christian-Muslim divide in their local contexts
Studia Islamica, 2003
Th is volume includes the papers delivered at the 4th Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christ... more Th is volume includes the papers delivered at the 4th Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam, held in Birmingham in September 2001. Its subject is the religiously pluralist society of the first ʿAbbassid period (roughly 750-1000 C.E.), where Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Muslims lived together, challenged their neighbours to explain and defend their beliefs, or just wrote sec refutations of other beliefs. Th is intellectual exchange brought about a fascinating interpenetration of concepts and ideas. Most papers take their starting point in texts composed either by Christians, belonging to the different denominations in Baghdad, such as the East and West Syrians ('Nestorians', 'Jacobites') and Chalcedonians, who wrote in Arabic, Syriac or Greek, or, to a lesser degree, in texts by Muslim theologians of different background. Th e first paper, by Barbara Roggema, is a thematic study and discusses the numerous allusions by Christian authors to Islam as a kind of idolatrous faith or at least a belief with idolatrous aspects. Roggema analyses themes like the Kaʿba cult, the veneration of Aphrodite-al-ʿUzza-Kabar, the difficult concept of S .amad and, finally, the famous designation h. anpē/ h. unafāʾ. Besides, she adduces examples from different Christian texts, written by authors such as John of Damascus, Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, and Abraham of Tiberias. In an interesting final discussion she tries to reconcile the (at first sight contradictory) negative Christian perception of Islam as idolatrous and the contemporary positive approach of Muhammad, who, in the words of a Nestorian monk, liberated the Muslims from idolatry and brought them to the true knowledge of God. Sandra T. Keating examines the refutation of the Melkites by the West Syrian author Abū Rāʾit .a in response to the deposed Melkite bishop of Harran, Abū Qurra, and his missionary efforts among the Armenians. One is inclined, of course, to consider this text primarily as an inner-Christian document, written in defense of a miaphysite christology. Th e study aims to demonstrate that, in order to understand the full meaning of this letter, one should take into account that also Muslims were targeted. A number of terms and allusions are only understandable for people familiar with the
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
Whereas it is generally accepted that Muslim polemicists against Christianity habitually condemne... more Whereas it is generally accepted that Muslim polemicists against Christianity habitually condemned the Gospels as corrupt, a surprising number in fact quoted from all four Gospels, and employed them in arguments that were both directed against Christian beliefs and constructed to defend Islam. This article brings together in tabular form more than 1270 Gospel references from 23 works by 20 Muslim authors, from the early third/ninth century to the early eighth/fourteenth century, and by means of a system of keys shows how they were deployed in support of a range of doctrinal points.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table, part I', in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table (part I)' in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table', Part I in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.
Martin Accad has been leading peacemaking initiatives in Lebanon for years. Hear why he thinks ke... more Martin Accad has been leading peacemaking initiatives in Lebanon for years. Hear why he thinks kerygmatic peacebuilding is so essential to the Christian faith and how he has creatively engaged with his Muslim neighbors in pursuit of peace. He is joined by Muhammad Abu Zayd, the head judge of the Sunni religious court of the city of Sidon in South Lebanon. Martin and Muhammad have worked together for over 10 years in dialogue and peacemaking efforts
This final session begins with a time of discussion among pathway speakers and participants, faci... more This final session begins with a time of discussion among pathway speakers and participants, facilitated by Garry Bailey and Derran Reese. To conclude, Martin Accad and John Barton offer practical tips and suggestions for how individuals and churches can be peacemakers across the Christian-Muslim divide in their local contexts
Studia Islamica, 2003
Th is volume includes the papers delivered at the 4th Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christ... more Th is volume includes the papers delivered at the 4th Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam, held in Birmingham in September 2001. Its subject is the religiously pluralist society of the first ʿAbbassid period (roughly 750-1000 C.E.), where Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Muslims lived together, challenged their neighbours to explain and defend their beliefs, or just wrote sec refutations of other beliefs. Th is intellectual exchange brought about a fascinating interpenetration of concepts and ideas. Most papers take their starting point in texts composed either by Christians, belonging to the different denominations in Baghdad, such as the East and West Syrians ('Nestorians', 'Jacobites') and Chalcedonians, who wrote in Arabic, Syriac or Greek, or, to a lesser degree, in texts by Muslim theologians of different background. Th e first paper, by Barbara Roggema, is a thematic study and discusses the numerous allusions by Christian authors to Islam as a kind of idolatrous faith or at least a belief with idolatrous aspects. Roggema analyses themes like the Kaʿba cult, the veneration of Aphrodite-al-ʿUzza-Kabar, the difficult concept of S .amad and, finally, the famous designation h. anpē/ h. unafāʾ. Besides, she adduces examples from different Christian texts, written by authors such as John of Damascus, Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, and Abraham of Tiberias. In an interesting final discussion she tries to reconcile the (at first sight contradictory) negative Christian perception of Islam as idolatrous and the contemporary positive approach of Muhammad, who, in the words of a Nestorian monk, liberated the Muslims from idolatry and brought them to the true knowledge of God. Sandra T. Keating examines the refutation of the Melkites by the West Syrian author Abū Rāʾit .a in response to the deposed Melkite bishop of Harran, Abū Qurra, and his missionary efforts among the Armenians. One is inclined, of course, to consider this text primarily as an inner-Christian document, written in defense of a miaphysite christology. Th e study aims to demonstrate that, in order to understand the full meaning of this letter, one should take into account that also Muslims were targeted. A number of terms and allusions are only understandable for people familiar with the
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
Whereas it is generally accepted that Muslim polemicists against Christianity habitually condemne... more Whereas it is generally accepted that Muslim polemicists against Christianity habitually condemned the Gospels as corrupt, a surprising number in fact quoted from all four Gospels, and employed them in arguments that were both directed against Christian beliefs and constructed to defend Islam. This article brings together in tabular form more than 1270 Gospel references from 23 works by 20 Muslim authors, from the early third/ninth century to the early eighth/fourteenth century, and by means of a system of keys shows how they were deployed in support of a range of doctrinal points.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table, part I', in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table (part I)' in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2003
The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim... more The abbreviations and symbols used in the table are fully explained in 'The Gospels in the Muslim discourse of the ninth to the fourteenth centuries: an exegetical inventorial table', Part I in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14Ϻ1. They are listed below for convenience.