Posts made in October, 2018

Islam: Truth or Myth? / Alphonse Mingana. D.D.

Posted by on Oct 29, 2018 in Library | Comments Off on Islam: Truth or Myth? / Alphonse Mingana. D.D.

  An Ancient Syriac Translation Of The Kur’an  Exhibiting New Verses And Variants. Alphonse Mingana. D.D.  Foreward I AMONG the Syriac manuscripts brought recently from the East by the writer is one (numbered Mingana 89 and written about A.D. 1450) which contains controversial works against Jews, Nestorians, and Mohammedans by the West Syrian writer Barsalibi, who died in A.D. 1171. The treatise against the Mohammedans is divided into three discourses (maimré), subdivided into thirty chapters, two-thirds of which would offer no compensation for the trouble taken by a...

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Tales of King Abgar: A Basis to Investigate Earliest Syrian Christian Syncretism Emran El-Badawi

Posted by on Oct 24, 2018 in Library | Comments Off on Tales of King Abgar: A Basis to Investigate Earliest Syrian Christian Syncretism Emran El-Badawi

Badawi-King Abgar

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The robe of glory A biblical image in the Syriac tradition Sebastian Brock

Posted by on Oct 24, 2018 in Library | Comments Off on The robe of glory A biblical image in the Syriac tradition Sebastian Brock

Clothing imagery in Syriac

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The Curriculum of Aristotelian Philosophy among the Syrians John W. Watt

Posted by on Oct 24, 2018 in Library | Comments Off on The Curriculum of Aristotelian Philosophy among the Syrians John W. Watt

  Arestotle among the Syrians

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TWO ABBASED TRIALS: AHMAD IBN HANBAL AND HUNAYN B. ISHÀQ1 Michael COOPERSON University of California, Los Angeles

Posted by on Oct 24, 2018 in Library | Comments Off on TWO ABBASED TRIALS: AHMAD IBN HANBAL AND HUNAYN B. ISHÀQ1 Michael COOPERSON University of California, Los Angeles

Two Abbasid trials

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