Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac Receptions of Neo-Ashʿarite Theology
This article examines the reception of Neo-Ashʿarite theology during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature. It first looks at the so-called ‘Syriac Renaissance’ of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the ‘Renaissance of Copto-Arabic literature’ of the thirteenth and fourteenth c...
Published in: | The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
Year: 2014 |
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Summary: | This article examines the reception of Neo-Ashʿarite theology during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature. It first looks at the so-called ‘Syriac Renaissance’ of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the ‘Renaissance of Copto-Arabic literature’ of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It discusses some of the factors that contributed to the ‘Golden Age’ of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature, including the political stability of Ayyūbid rule that provided favourable conditions to the flowering of the socio-cultural life among Muslims and non-Muslims. It then assesses the impact of the Coptic and Syriac Renaissances on scientific-literary production and the influence of earlier authors of Christian-Arabic literature on the exponents of the Syriac and Copto-Arabic Renaissances. It also analyses the Christian reception of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī in Ayyūbid Syria and Egypt during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature. |
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ISBN: | 0199696705 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.016 |