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Mufawwidah and Ghulat: What is the Difference?

Did Ibn ʿAbbās (d. 67/687) Write a Tafsīr?

Zaydism

The Beliefs of the Zaydis: A Conspectus

Arabic Christianity

Elias of Nisibis and his Book of Demonstration: An East Syriac Identity in Arabic Language

In his Book of Demonstration, Elias of Nisibis (d. 1046) presents the identity of the Church of the East, from doctrinal, historical, liturgical, and ethical perspectives, in an attempt to distinguish it from the rest of the Christian Churches living in the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond.

Arabic Christianity

Christian Arabs as cultural mediators: al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd and his Universal History

When the 13th-century Coptic official Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of universal history from the creation to his own days. His work was to become one of the major instances of Christian-Muslim intellectual exchange in the pre-modern era.

Zaydism

Zaydī rebellion in the Kitāb al-Futūḥ of Ibn Aʿtham (fl. around 320/932): The case of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743)