Who Is the Man on the Camel?: Historical Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and Christian-Muslim Debate

This article examines Christian and Muslim exchanges concerning Isaiah 21:7 and Deuteronomy 18:15, biblical texts that Muslims interpreted as referring to the Prophet Muḥammad. The focus of the article is the well-known letter in which the East Syrian Catholicos, Timothy I (d. 823), reports his deba...

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Main Author: Zaleski, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2020, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-80
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Timotheos I Bagdad, Catholicos 728-823 / Bible. Jesaja 21,1-10 / Bible. Deuteronomium 18,15 / Mahdi Abbasids, Caliph 743-785 / Christianity / Interfaith dialogue / Islam
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
HB Old Testament
KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Hebrew Bible
B Timothy I
B ʿAlī ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī
B Caliph al-Mahdī
B Biblical Exegesis
B Christian-Muslim debate
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