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The Bible and the Qur'ān:  Select Bibliography of Primary Sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish with occasional Notes.

Stephen Lamben 1980s+2007-8.

Under revision and correction 2016-7...

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The Bible and the Qur'ān:  General Bibliography

Adang, Camilla.

  • Muslim Writers on Judaism & the Hebrew Bible from Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, ISBN 9004100342.

 Blau, J.,

  • 'Über einige christlich-arabische Manuskripte aus dem 9. und 10. Jahr­hundert', in Museon 75, 1962, pp. 101-8.
  • 'On a fragment of the oldest Judaeo-Arabic Bible translation extant', in J. Blau and S.C. Reif, eds,
    Genizah Research After Ninety Years: The Case of Judaeo-Arabic, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 31-9.

Beaumont, M.,

  • "Ammar al-Başrî on the Incarnation', in D. Thomas, ed., Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule, Leiden, 2003, pp. 55-62.
  • 'Early Muslim interpretation of the Gospels', Transformation 22, 2005, pp. 20-7.
  • Christology in Dialogue with Muslims, Carlisle, 2005.

Frank, Daniel.

  • Search Scripture Well: Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East (Bilingual) Leiden: Brill Academic Pub., 2004  (374pp.). ISBN  9004139028
     

Gairdner, W. H. T.

  • The Reproach of Islam. London, 1909.

Goldziher, Ignaz.

"Über muhammedanische Polemik gegen Ahl al-kitāb." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 32 (1878), pp. 341-378.

Hawting, G.R. et al., eds. 

  • Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder  (JSS Supp. 12). Oxford University Press, 2000.

Griffith, Sidney H.

  • "Arguing from Scripture: The Bible in the Christian/Muslim Encounter in the Middle Ages." ADD
  • "From Aramaic to Arabic: The Languages of the Monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods." DOP 51 (1997): 11-31.
  • "The Gospel in Arabic: An Inquiry into Its Appearance in the First Abbasid Century." OrCbr 69 (1985): 126-67.
  • "The Monks of Palestine and the Growth of Christian Literature in Arabic." MW7H (1988): 1-28.
  • "The Qur'an in Arab Christian Texts: The Development of an Apologetica! Argument: Abu Ourrali jn the Magliš of al-Mu'mūn." ParOr 1·\ (1999): 203-33.

Guillaume, Alfred.

  • The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ihn Ishat/'s Siral Rasul Allah. 1955. Repr., Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1967.
  • "The Version of the Gospels Used in Medina c. A.D. 700." Al-Andalus 15 (1950): 289-96.

 Jan Joosten, 2001-2

  • "Tatian's Diatessaron and the Old Testament Peshitta" Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 120, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), 501-523

  • "The Gospel of Barnabas and the Dietessaron" Harvard Theological Review 95.1 (2002), 73-96.
     

Jeffery, Arthur.

  • `Ghevond's text of the correspondence between Umar II and Leo III', in Harvard Theol. Review, xxxvii [1944], 269–321

Khātūnābādī, Muhammad Bāqir ibn Ismā`īl Ḥusaynī  

  • Tarjamih-yi anājil-i arba`ih. Ed. Rasūl Jāfaryān (= Persian Literature and Linguistics 10).Tehran: Nuqṭih Press, 1375/1996 

Kraus, P.,

  • Hebräische und syrische Zitate in isma'ilitischen Schriften, in: Der Islam 19 (1931), 243-263
  • Reprint in: Kraus, P., Alchemie, Ketzerei, Apokryphen im frühen Islam. Gesammelte Aufsätze, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Rémi Brague, Hildesheim 1994, 3-23.

Lambden, Stephen N.

  • Islam [The Bible and Isrā'īliyyāt in Islamic Literatures]" chapter  9 in the  Oxford: Blackwell Companion to The Bible and Culture (ed.  by John F. A Sawyer), 2006,  pp. 135-157.  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405101363&site=1
  • Islamo-biblica and Beyond : some aspects of  the Isrā’īliyyāt (Israelitica) phenomenon and the Islamo-biblical tradition. Oxford: Oneworld  forthcoming.

Pfander, Karl Gottlieb,

  • Kitāb mīzān al-haqq (1835). Jerusalem 1865. TransL, by R. H. Weakley: The Mizan ul Hauq: or Balance of Truth. London, 1867.
  • "Pfänder՝s letter of 16th Sept 1862 to the CMS." Doc. No. 63a; Archives of Heslop Room/University of Birmingham (unpublished documents).

Pfander, Carl, Gottlieb (b. Wurttemberg 1803-1865),

  • 1874 +1888 = Arabic Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥaqq. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 240pp.
  • 1866+1867 1st English trans. R. H. Weakley = Mizan Ul Haqq; or Balance of Truth, Mizan ul haqq; or, balance of truth: London: Church Missionary House. 134pp.
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Rahmatullah ibn Khalīl al-'Uthmānī al-Kairãnawĩ.

  • I'jāz-i 'Îsawî. Agra 1853; repr. Delhi 1876.
  • Izhâr al-haqq. Istanbul 1280/1867-1868.
  • French transi, by P. V. Cadetti: Idh-har-ul-Haqq ou Manifestation de la Vérité, 2 vols. Paris, 1880.

al-Saqqä, Ahmad Hijāzī,

  • ed. Rahmät Allah ai-Hindi, izhar al-haqq. al-Qahira: Dar al-Turāth al-'Arabĩ li'l-Tiba'a wa'l-Nasr, 1978.

Powell, Ann. Avril.

  •  1976 `Maulānā Rahmat Allāh Kairānawī and Muslim-Christian Controversy in India in the mid. 19th Century’ JRAS 20 (1976), 42-63.
  •  1993 Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India. Richmond: Curzon Press.
  • "Maulana Rähmät Allah Kairanawî and Muslim-Christian controversy in India in the mid-nineteenth century." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20 (1976), pp. 42-63.
  •  `Contact and controversy between Islam and Christianity in northern India 1833-1857: The relations between Muslims and Protestant missionaries', Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1991.

Rashīd Rida. Muhammad

  • al-Manar 10 (1325-1326).
  • ed. tafslr al-qur'an al-hakīm, vol. 9. al-Qahira 1347/1928.

 

Schippers, Arie.

  • “Psalms” in McAuliffe, ed. E-Q., 4: 314-318. *

Schirrmacher, Christine.

  • Mit den Waffen des Gegners: Christlich-Muslimische Kontroversen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, dargestellt am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung um Karl Gottlieb Pfanders 'mīzān al-haqq ՝ und Rahmatullah ibn Khalīl al-'Utmānī al-Kairanawls 'izhâr al-haqq ՝ und der Diskussion über das Barnabasevangelium. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1992.

al-Shahrastanī, Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm (b. c. 469 [479]-542 = c. 1086-1153).

  • Mafatīḥ al-Asrār wa Maṣābīḥ al-Abrār [Persian Facsimile editon in 2 vols. covering Surat al-Fatiha and Baqara Q.  Surahs 1-2]. Tehran: Markaz-i Intishār-i Nushakh-i Khaṭṭī  ( = Centre for the Publication of Manuscripts). Facsimile edition of the Unique Manuscript at the Library of the Islamic Consultative Assembly  or Bunyād-i Farhang-i Irān. Introduction by `Abd al-Husayn Ha'iri and Indices by Parviz Akhka'i,  1989 CE/1409 AH/1368Sh.  (Vol. 1 = 26pp +pp. 1-240 + vol.2 = pp. 241-434 + Index pp.869-913). *
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  • Tafsīr al-Shahrastānī, Mafatīḥ al-Asrār wa Maṣābīḥ al-Abrār, [Keys to the Mysteries and Lamps for the Pious] ed. Muhammad `Alī Ādharshab. Tehran: Iḥyā-i Kitāb, Daftar-i Nashr-i Miras-i Maktub, 1997.*

Other writings of al-Shahrastānī :

  • Kitāb al-Milal wa'l-nihal ("The Book of Religious and Philosophical Communities") [written 1127 CE]*
  • Nihayat al-`iqdam ("The Culmination of Demonstration in Scholastic Philosophy").
  • al-Milal wa'l-Nihal. Edited by Muhammad Sayyid Kīlānī. 1st ed.; Cairo, Mustafa al-Bābī al-Halabï, 1381/1961;
  • 2nd ed. [actually reprint]; Beirut, Dar al-Ma'rifa, 1975.
     

Thomas, David (ed.) 2003

  • [HCMR1] Christians At The Heart Of Islamic Rule : Church Life And Scholarship In ‘Abbasid Iraq (= Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (4th : 2001 : Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)
    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003. xiii, 271 pp. Contents =
  • Introduction, Notes on Contributors

  • Muslims as crypto-idolaters: a theme in the Christian portrayal of Islam in the Near East / Barbara Roggema 1

  • Monasteries through Muslim Eyes: the Diyarat Books / Hilary Kilpatrick 19

  • Habib ibn Khidma Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti's 'The Refutation of the Melkites concerning the Union [of the Divinity and Humanity in Christ]' (III) / Sandra Toenies Keating 39

  • 'Ammar al-Basri on the Incarnation / Mark Beaumont 55

  • The Christian al-Ma'mun Tradition / Mark N. Swanson 63

  • Stuccowork at the Monastery of the Syrians in the Wadi Natrun: Iraqi-Egyptian Artistic Contact in the 'Abbasid Period / Lucy-Anne Hunt 93

  • The 'Philosophical Life' in Tenth Century Baghdad: the Contribution of Yahya Ibn 'Adi's Kitab tahdhib al-akhlaq / Sidney Griffith 129

  • Yahya Ibn 'Adi and the Theory of Iktisab / Emilio Platti 151

  • Language and thought in Kitab al-majdal, bab 2, fasl 1, al-Dhurwa / Bo Holmberg 159

  • The two recensions of the Prologue to John in Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on the Gospels / Julian Faultless 177

  • The Ultimate Proof-Text: The Interpretation of John 20.17 in Muslim-Christian Dialogue (second/eighth-eight/fourteenth centuries) / Martin Accad 199

  • A Medieval Islamic Polemic against Certain Practices and Doctrines of the East Syrian Church: Introduction, Excerpts and Commentary / Gabriel Said Reynolds 215

  • Early Muslim Responses to Christianity / David Thomas 231

  • Bibliography 255

  • Index 267

Swanson, Mark and David Thomas (eds). 2006.

  • [HMCR 5] The encounter of Eastern Christianity with early Islam, introduction by Emmanouela Grypeou (= The History of Muslim-Christian relations, 1570-7350, Vol. 5). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.vi, 338 pp. Papers from a workshop held in June 2003 in Erfurt, Germany Includes bibliographical references (pp. 312-330) and index.  Contents =
  • Islam and Oriens Christianus : Makka 610-622 A.D. / Irfan Shahid 9
  • The face to face encounter between patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Caliph 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab : friends or foes? / Daniel J. Sahas 33
  • Ideological transformation and the evolution of imperial presentation in the wake of Islam's victory / David Olster 45
  • The early Muslim raids into Anatolia and Byzantine reactions under emperor Constants II / Walter E. Kaegi 73
  • Copts and the Islam of the seventh century / Harald Suermann 95
  • Amid in the seventh-century Syriac life of Theodute / Andrew Palmer 111
  • Die islamische Zeit in Giwargis Wardas 'Onita uber die Katholikoi des Ostens / Martin Tamcke 139
  • Political power and right religion in the East Syrian disputation between a monk of Bet Hale and an Arab notable / Gerrit J. Reinink 153
  • The perception and presentation of the Arab conquest in Syriac historiography : how did the changing social position of the Syrian orthodox community influence the account of their historiographers? / Jan J. Van Ginkel 171
  • New Testament citations in the Hadith literature and the question of early gospel translations into Arabic / David Cook 185
  • Muslim-Christian controversy in an unedited Syriac text, revelations and testimonies about our Lord's dispensation / Muriel Debie 225
  • Folly to the Hunafa' : the crucifixion in early Christian-Muslim controversy / Mark N. Swanson 237
  • Christian theologians and new questions / David Thomas 257
  • Answers for the Shaykh : a 'Melkite' Arabic text from Sinai and the doctrines of the trinity and the incarnation in 'Arab orthodox' apologetics / Sidney H. Griffith

Thomas, David (ed.) 2007

  • [HCMR6] The Bible in Arab Christianity (= Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam, 5th : 2005 : Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre), (Series = The history of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 6 )   Leiden;Boston: Brill, 2007. Contents =

  • The Arabic versions of the gospels : a case study of John 1.1 and 1.18 / Hikmat Kachouh 9

  • Bible et liturgie chez les Arabes chretiens (VIe-IXe siecle) / Samir Arbache 37

  • Anti-Jewish polemic and early Islam / Shaun O'Sullivan 49

  • The use of biblical quotations in Christian apocalyptic writings of the umayyad period / Harald Suermann 69

  • Beyond prooftexting (2) : the use of the Bible in some early Arabic Christian apologies / Mark Swanson 91

  • The re-written Bible in Arabic : the paradise story and its exegesis in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter / Emmanouela Grypeou 113

  • Biblical exegesis and interreligious polemics in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter - The Book of the Rolls / Barbara Roggema 131

  • The development of testimony collections in early Christian apologetics with Islam / David Bertaina 151

  • The Bible and the Kalam / David Thomas 175

  • The Qur'anic Sarah as prototype of Mary / Gabriel Said Raynolds 193

  • Early Muslim accusations of tahrif : Muqatil Ibn Sulayman's commentary on Kcy Qur'anic verses / Gordon Nickel 207

  • Is there room for corruption in the 'books' of God? / Clare Wilde 225

  • 'Ammar al-Basri on the alleged corruption of the Gospels / Mark Beaumont 241

  • The use and translation of scripture in the apologetic writings of Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti / Sandra Keating 257

  • Al-Radd al-Jamil : al-Ghazali's or Pseudo-Ghazali's? / Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth 275

  • Hanbalite commentary on the Bible : analysis of Najm al-Din al-Tufi's (d. 716/1316) Al-Ta'liq / Lejla Demiri 295

  • Illustrating the gospels in Arabic : Byzantine and Arab Christian miniatures in two manuscripts of the early Mamluk period in Cambridge / Lucy-Anne Hunt 315

  • A nestorian Arabic pentateuch used in Western Islamic lands / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala 351

  • Biblical allusions and citations in the syriac Theotokia according to MS Syr. new series 11 of the national library of Russia, St. Petersburg / Natalia Smelova

Sweetman, J. Windrow

  • 1937 [1955] Islam and Christian Theology. Parts 1–2. Missionary Research Series no. 22. London: Lutterworth Press. Thomas, Bertram. 1937.
  • Islam and Christian Theology, A Study of the Interpretation of Theological Ideas in the Two Religions. Part Two, Volume One . Lutterworth Library, Vol. XLV, Missionary Research Series, No. 22.
  • Islam and Christian Theology, A Study of the Interpretation of Theological Ideas in the Two Religions. Part One, Volume II
  • Islam and Christian theology, London-Redhill, 3 vols. (i, 1945)
  • IIslam and Christian Theology, A Study of the Interpretation of Theological Ideas in the Two Religions. Rep.   JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD. ISBN: 0227172019 Pbk. 1st September 2002

Thomas, David (ed.)

  •  The Bible in Arab Christianity (= Conference Proceedings of the 5th Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam in 2005 at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre).  Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. 421pp. *

    Contains the following:

  • The Arabic versions of the gospels : a case study of John 1.1 and 1.18 / Hikmat Kachouh 9
  • Bible et liturgie chez les Arabes chretiens (VIe-IXe siecle) / Samir Arbache 37
  • Anti-Jewish polemic and early Islam / Shaun O'Sullivan 49
  • The use of biblical quotations in Christian apocalyptic writings of the umayyad period / Harald Suermann 69
    Beyond prooftexting (2) : the use of the Bible in some early Arabic Christian apologies / Mark Swanson 91
  • The re-written Bible in Arabic : the paradise story and its exegesis in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter / Emmanouela Grypeou 113
  • Biblical exegesis and interreligious polemics in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter - The Book of the Rolls / Barbara Roggema 131
  • The development of testimony collections in early Christian apologetics with Islam / David Bertaina 151
  • The Bible and the Kalam / David Thomas 175
  • The Qur'anic Sarah as prototype of Mary / Gabriel Said Raynolds 193
  • Early Muslim accusations of tahrif : Muqatil Ibn Sulayman's commentary on Key Qur'anic verses / Gordon Nickel 207
  • Is there room for corruption in the 'books' of God? / Clare Wilde 225
  • 'Ammar al-Basri on the alleged corruption of the Gospels / Mark Beaumont 241
  • The use and translation of scripture in the apologetic writings of Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti / Sandra Keating 257
  • Al-Radd al-Jamil : al-Ghazali's or Pseudo-Ghazali's? / Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth 275
  • Hanbalite commentary on the Bible : analysis of Najm al-Din al-Tufi's (d. 716/1316) Al-Ta'liq / Lejla Demiri 295
  • Illustrating the gospels in Arabic : Byzantine and Arab Christian miniatures in two manuscripts of the early Mamluk period in Cambridge / Lucy-Anne Hunt 315
  • A nestorian Arabic pentateuch used in Western Islamic lands / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala 351
  • Biblical allusions and citations in the syriac Theotokia according to MS Syr. new series 11 of the national library of Russia, St. Petersburg / Natalia Smelova 369