The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible - Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Nahḍa

The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible examines the history of a translation begun by American missionaries within the changing social context of late Ottoman Syria, and utilized an international network of scholars working on textual manuscripts of the Bible.

About the author

David D. Grafton, Ph.D. (2001), University of Birmingham, UK, is the Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is the author of The Christians of Lebanon (2004), Piety, Politics and Power: Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East (2009) and Christian-Muslim Relations in the Lutheran and Anglican Communions (2013).

Product details

• Authors: David D Grafton, David D. Grafton
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2015
• EAN: 9789004307070
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30707-0
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: History of Christian-Muslim Re
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works