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- Title
Early Christian Interpretation of the Qur'an.
- Authors
Beaumont, Mark Ivor
- Abstract
The article highlights how earliest recorded Christian readings of the Qur'an reveal a variety of approaches to the sacred text. After Muslim rule had been established throughout the largely Christian Middle East in the 640's, the Christian majority discovered that the new religion is claimed to be a purer version of divine revelation than the Christian scriptures. The Muslim scriptures were written in the Arabic language of the Caliphs, and became available for Christians to study. John of Damascus spent his career as a secretary to the Caliph in Damascus, and identified three issues in his understanding that would set the parameters of Christian interpretation of the Qur'an for subsequent generations.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; CHRISTIAN interpretations of Islamic literature; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); ARABIC language; CHRISTIAN literature; QUR'AN -- Relation to the Bible
- Publication
Transformation (02653788), 2005, Vol 22, Issue 4, p195
- ISSN
0265-3788
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/026537880502200402