Muslim Bible reception

“Torah"

by Camilla Adang

in: Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur’Án, Volume Five. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2006, 300-311

“Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures”

by Camilla Adang

in: Jacques Waardenburg (ed.), Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions. A Historical Survey. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 143-159

"The chronology of the Israelites according to Hamza al-Isfahani"

by Camilla Adang

Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 32 (2006), 286-310.

“A rare case of biblical ‘testimonies’ to the Prophet Muḥammad in Muʿtazilī literature. Quotations from Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī’s Kitāb al-Dīn wa-l-Dawla in Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s Ghurar al-adilla, as preserved in a work by al-Ḥimmaṣī al-Rāzī.”

by Camilla Adang

in ADANG Camilla, SCHMIDTKE Sabine and SKLARE David (eds.), A Common Rationality. Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism, Ergon, Würzburg, 2007, p. 297-330.

"The Muslim Reception of Biblical Materials: Ibn Qutayba and his A'lam al-nubuwwa"

by Sabine Schmidtke زابينه اشميتكه סבינה שמיטקה

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 22 iii (2011), pp. 249-74

The two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the prophet Muḥammad... more The two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the prophet Muḥammad from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are the Kitāb al-Dīn wa-l-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam ʿAlī Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (b. ca. 194/810, d. 251/865) and the Aʿlām al-nubuwwa by Ibn Rabban’s contemporary Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muslim b. Qutayba (b. 213/828, d. 276/889). Ibn Qutayba’s Aʿlām al-nubuwwa clearly eclipsed Ibn Rabban’s al-Dīn wa-l-dawla in popularity – the text was used over the following centuries by various authors as a reference text for the biblical material it contained. An incomplete and (as it seems) unique manuscript of Ibn Qutayba’s work, which is preserved in the Dār al-kutub al-Ẓāhiriyya in Damascus, has mostly escaped scholars’ attention until now. The article contains a critical edition of the first eight sections of the text that contain biblical materials.