The Cross of Christ

Islamic Perspectives

W. Richard Oakes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1745-3 (ISBN)

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The Cross of Christ: Foundational Islamic Perspectives focuses on understanding how Muslim scholars have interpreted the only Qur'anic verse that mentions Jesus' crucifixion. Despite considering a few creative approaches, all of these commentators eventually deny Jesus' crucifixion.

The Cross of Christ: Foundational Islamic Perspectives takes an in-depth look at all of the medieval Muslim scholars considered to have affirmed Jesus' crucifixion. Each chapter provides the important historical and intellectual context for the commentators. As well, critical new translations of key texts are provided, offering important access to vital documents and schools of thought. The author argues that, rather than affirming the historicity of the crucifixion, the Isma'ilis tend to assume its historicity, in order to advance important Isma'ili doctrines. The author also contends that the commentators who explored ways to affirm the crucifixion, nonetheless made extensive use of traditional substitution legends that deny the crucifixion. In order to orient the reader, the book starts by introducing the reader to the Jesus of the Qur'an. It then compares him to the Jesus of the New Testament and the Jesus of extra canonical literature. Upon this Qur'anic skeleton, the author layers a myriad of details found in seventeen works of classic Islamic literature, so that a truly unique, authentic and authoritative Jesus of Islam emerges.

W. Richard Oakes Jr. is post-doctoral researcher.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Conventions

Introduction

Part I Introduction to the Jesus of Islam

1 The Jesus of the Qur’an

2 The Jesus of the Qur’an in the New Testament

3 The Jesus of the Qur’an in Para-Biblical Literature

4 The Jesus of Classical Islamic Literature

Part I Observation about the Jesus of Islam

Part II Introduction to the Ismā‘īlī Case for the Crucifixion

5 Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī

6 Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī Argues against al-Nasafī and against Rhazes

7 The Book of Highest Initiation

8 Abū Ya‘qūb al-Sijistānī

9 Ja‘far b. Manṣūr al-Yaman

10 Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’

Part II Observations about the Ismā‘īlī Case for the Crucifixion

Part III Introduction to the Tafāsīr Case for the Crucifixion

11 The Substitution Legends of the Jāmi‘ al-bayān ‘an ta’wīl al-Qur’ān of al-Ṭabarī

12 The Four Grammarians of the Crucifixion

13 Four Rationalists Discuss Whether Allah Can Cast the Likeness of One Man upon Another

14 The Mysticism of Rūzbihān al-Baqlī

15 Two Anti-Christian Polemical Works

Part III Observations about the Tafāsīr Case for the Crucifixion

Conclusion

Overview of Related Literature

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 229 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-7936-1745-7 / 1793617457
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1745-3 / 9781793617453
Zustand	Neuware