Theodore Abu-Qurrah
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Theodore Abu Qurrah was a 9th century Christian Arab theologian who lived in the early Islamic period. Born in the city of Edessa, in northern Mesopotamia, and was for a time the Chalcedonian or Melkite bishop of the nearby city of Harran.
Abu Qurrah was one of the first Christian authors to use Arabic. He was the author of over a dozen substantial treatises in Arabic and some forty smaller works in Greek on various apologetical, anti-heretical, and theological topics, including critical of Mohammedanism. He died around the year 820 A.D.
In numerous Arabic and Greek writings, Abu Qurrah defended his faith from the challenges of Mohammedanism and the opponents of Chalcedon, and in doing so re-articulated traditional Christian teachings using the language and concepts of Islamic theologians.
His writings provide an important witness to Christian thought in the early Islamic world. A number of them were edited with German translations by Georg Graf.
Theodore also translated the pseudo-Aristotelian De virtutibus animae into Arabic from Greek for Tahir ibn Husayn. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Sydney H. Griffith, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the world of Islam (Princeton University Press, 2008), p. 107.
[edit] Links
- BBKL - in German
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