Christian-Muslim Relations 1500 - 1900
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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
General Editors: David Thomas and John Chesworth
Associate Editors: John Azumah, Clinton Bennett, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Andrew Newman, Douglas Pratt
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
Subscriptions: Brill.com
A.A. Prozorovskii
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Prozorovskii Date of Birth: Approximately 1733 Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: 8 August 1809 (21 August 1809 New Style) Place of Death: Army camp on the Măcin branch of the Danube River, Ottoman Empire (in present-day Romania)
Biography Alexander Prozorovskii was born into an old Muscovite noble family. His father had been sent to Holland for naval training by Peter the Great, and upon his return he rose to command a ship in the Russian Navy. He was forced to retire, however, after his leg was crushed in a boat collision, and he died in 1740. Young Alexander was…
ʿAbbās II, Shah of Persia
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Date of Birth: 19 November 1633 Place of Birth: Isfahan Date of Death: 25 September 1666 Place of Death: Ashraf (Mazandaran)
Biography Born in 1633, Shah ʿAbbās II, the son of Shah Ṣafī (r. 1629-42), was barely nine years old when he ascended the Safavid throne in 1642. In the first years of his reign, the court was dominated by a cabal consisting of his mother, Annā Khānūm, grand vizier Mīrzā Muḥammad ‘Sārū Taqī, and the
qurchībāshī, head of the tribal cavalry, Jānī Khān. ʿAbbās took effective power in 1645 by ridding himself of the latter two, first using Jānī Khān t…
ʿAbbās I, Shah of Persia
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Date of Birth: 27 January 1571 Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: 19 January 1629 Place of Death: Ashraf, Mazandaran
Biography Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1587-1629), the fifth ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722), came to power at a time when tribal factionalism was tearing at the fabric of the state and foreign invaders had greatly reduced Iran’s territory. In his 40-odd-year reign, he managed to retake the borderlands lost by his predecessors, and also to add the Persian Gulf littoral to Safavid control and to incor…
ʿAbbās-Qulī Khān Sipihr Kāshānī
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Date of Birth: 1852 Place of Birth: Tehran Date of Death: 1924 Place of Death: Tehran
BiographyʿAbbās-Qulī Khān Sipihr Kāshānī was a man of letters and a member of the last generation of traditional bureaucratic elites in Qajar Iran. His father, Muḥammad Taqī Sipihr, known as Lisān al-Mulk (1801-80), was a prominent historian during the reigns of Muḥammad Shah (r. 1834-48) and Nāṣir al-Dīn Shah (r. 1848-96), and is famed for a work of universal history titled
Nāsikh al-tawārīkh. Unlike the case of his father, there is relatively little biographical information about ʿAb…
Abbé Demanet
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Abbé Jean-Baptiste Demanet Date of Birth: First half of the 18th century Place of Birth: Unknown; probably France Date of Death: 12 July 1778 Place of Death: West Africa; probably Senegal
BiographyJean-Baptiste Demanet was a French secular priest, best known for his two-volume work
Nouvelle histoire de l’Afrique françoise, published in 1767. It seems he served for some time as a priest of the diocese of Trèves, but little else is known about him until he was appointed chaplain to the French troops stationed on Gorée Island (off the coast of p…
Abbé de Saint-Pierre
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Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre Date of Birth: 1658 Place of Birth: Saint-Pierre-Église Date of Death: 1743 Place of Death: Paris
Biography Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre was born in Saint-Pierre-Église in 1658, into a noble family from lower Normandy. He studied at the Jesuit college in Rouen and then Caen, and on becoming a priest he settled in Paris in 1680 with his fellow student, the mathematician Pierre Varignon, became friends with Bernard le Bovier de Fo…
Abbé Ignace Etienne
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Ignace Etienne Brasil, Ignace Etienne Brazil Date of Birth: 25 December 1882 Place of Birth: Ottoman Empire Date of Death: 15 March 1955 Place of Death: Rio de Janeiro
BiographyThe life of Abbé Ignace Etienne can only be traced from his published works. Scattered over Brazilian newspapers and some European journals, these publications not only shed light on his private life, but also provide insight into his intellectual reading and his political engagement, which included relations with the Ottoman Empire and issues concerning it.Ignace Etienne was born on 25 December 1882, …
Abbot Eftimie
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Egumenul Eftimie Date of Birth: Unknown; probably around 1500 Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: Unknown; possibly after 1571 Place of Death: Unknown; possibly the monastery of Humor, Moldavia
Biography Few reliable details are known about the life and career of Eftimie. He certainly was the ‘apprentice’ of the bishop and chronicler Macarie of Roman, whom he likely knew during his life as a young monk. Eftimie has been successively identified as ‘bishop of Rădăuţi’ (1552), the ‘abbot of the Neamţ monastery’ (1553), who l…
Abbot Macarie
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Episcopul Macarie de Roman Date of Birth: Unknown; probably the end of the 15th century Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: 1 January 1558 Place of Death: Roman, Moldavia
Biography Macarie was the most prominent Church Slavonic writer in 16th-century Moldavia. He was born at the end of the 15th century. We have practically no information about his youth, but he claims to have been an ‘apprentice’ of the metropolitan of Moldavia, Theoctist II (1509-28), whom he certainly met at the monastery of Neamţ, the foremost cultural centre of Moldavia …
Abbreviations and Foreword
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FOREWORD
David Thomas
Christian-Muslim relations. A bibliographical History 6 (
CMR 6) continues the history of relations between Christians and Muslims as recorded in original sources in the period 1500-1600, following the same general approach as the earlier volumes in the series.
CMR 6 focuses on works from the 16th century in the countries of Western Europe, and shows that, while many of the preoccupations that dominated the Middle Ages were still prominent, particularly issues of political and religious relations between Christianity…
ʿAbbūd Ṣaydaḥ
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ʿAbbūd ibn Ilyās ibn ʿAbduh Ṣaydaḥ Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Unknown; probably Aleppo Date of Death: Unknown Place of Death: Unknown
BiographyNothing is known about ʿAbbūd ibn Ilyās ibn ʿAbduh Ṣaydaḥ except that he was an Arabic-speaking Christian, and that he wrote his description of the fall of Constantinople in Aleppo in 1731. No other document has come to light that can be associated with him. Some internal evidence in the text gives reason to think that he was a Catholic, most likely a Melkite.
Primary Sources of Information-
Secondary Sources of Information-
Works on Chr…
‘Abd al-Aḥad Dāwūd
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David Benjamin Keldani Date of Birth: 1867 Place of Birth: Urmia, Iran Date of Death: 6 July 1950 Place of Death: New York
BiographyOriginally named David Benjamin Keldani, this convert to Islam was a former Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean Church. When he converted he adopted the name ʿAbd al-Aḥad (Servant of the One). According to a short biography that appeared in the
Islamic Review in 1929, David Benjamin was born in 1867 in Urmia, Iran. He received his early education in his home town. Between 1886 and 1889, he served among the teaching sta…
ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī
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Abdallah al-Husainy, Sheikh Abdullah, Sheikh Abdulla, Ahmed Helmy, Sheikh Ahmed, Aḥmad Ḥilmī ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafā al-Ḥusaynī, Hatib-i Nasrani, Abdullah el-Hatib, al-Shaykh Gharīb ibn ʿAjīb al-Sūrī Date of Birth: 1868/9 Place of Birth: Tripoli, Syria Date of Death: 1919 Place of Death: Cairo
BiographyThe main source for the biography of ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī, or Sheikh Abdullah as he was often called, is a public testimony he made in 1911 after his conversion to Christianity. Originally written in Arabic, it was also translated into Eng…
'Abd Allāh ibn al-‘Umarī l-Ṭarābulusī l-Ḥanafī
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Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Tripoli Date of Death: After 1772 Place of Death: Damascus
BiographyContemporary biographies from the 17th and 18th centuries provide only scant information about the life of 'Abd Allāh ibn al-ʿUmarī l-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī. His date of birth is unknown, though it was probably towards the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th, as his work
Qabas al-anwār fī l-radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā l-ashrār was authored in the second half of the 18th century. He was born in Tripoli, where he spent his early childhood. He later travelled to Eg…
ʿAbd Allāh Zākhir
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Date of Birth: 1684 Place of Birth: Aleppo Date of Death: 31 August 1748 Place of Death: al-Shuwayr (Mount Lebanon)
BiographyʿAbd Allāh Zākhir, son of Zakhariyā Ṣāʾigh, was a major figure in the Romanophile movement (which favoured union of the Eastern Churches with Rome), first in Aleppo until November 1722, then in Mount Lebanon, especially in al-Shuwayr, from 1722 until his death. He was part of the generation that saw the Melkite Antiochian community split in two after the death of Patriarch Athanasius Dabbās (…
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Shaykh Ḥamad ibn Nāṣir Ᾱl Muʿammar
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Date of Birth: 1788 Place of Birth: Dirʿiyya Date of Death: 1829 Place of Death: Bahrain
BiographyʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Shaykh Ḥamad ibn Nāṣir Ᾱl Muʿammar was born approximately four (lunar) years before the death of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792), the eponym of the Wahhābī movement. His mother was probably one of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s daughters. Among his teachers was ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, the then Grand Mufti of Najd. Ᾱl Muʿammar was appointed as a judge in Dirʿiyya during the reign …
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Jāwīsh
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Abdülazîz Çâvîş, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Šāwīš, Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Shāwīsh Date of Birth: 1876 Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt Date of Death: 25 January 1929 Place of Death: Cairo
BiographyʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Jāwīsh, a religious scholar from Egypt, was one of the most important and influential representatives of the Egyptian national movement in Europe. He was also a proponent of the pan-Islamic movement as well as pan-Ottomanism. A gifted speaker and writer, Jāwīsh was born in 1876 in Alexandria to a Tunisian father and a Turkish mot…
ʿAbd al-Ghanī l-Nābulusī
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ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl l-Nābulusī Date of Birth: 1641 Place of Birth: Damascus Date of Death: 1731 Place of Death: Damascus
BiographyAn eminent theologian, jurist, poet, Sufi, and great commentator on Ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 1240) mystical thought, ʿAbd al-Ghanī l-Nābulusī was one of the most illustrious intellectual figures of the 17th- and 18th-century Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire. He served as judge in al-Maydān (south of Damascus), and then as mufti of Damascus for a short period of time. He held a teaching post at th…
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghdādī
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Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Baghdad Date of Death: 1881 Place of Death: Mecca
BiographyʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī was a 19th-century Ottoman scholar and traveller. Although he was originally from Baghdad, as the
nisba in his name indicates, he eventually settled in Damascus, where he studied, set up home and raised a family. For reasons that are as yet unclear, he arrived in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul, sometime in the first five years of the 1860s. Here, he befriended the sea captain Muḥammad Ansh Pāshā…
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Jabartī Date of Birth: 1754 Place of Birth: Cairo Date of Death: 1825 Place of Death: Cairo
BiographyʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī holds a privileged place in the historiography of modern Egypt and the Middle East in general. He is considered one of the greatest historians of the Islamic and the Arab world, but despite his fame very little is known about his personal life. He was born in Cairo in 1754 into a wealthy and educated family that had migrated from the Ethiopian city of Jabart to …