Inhaltszusammenfassung

The past few decades have seen a growing scholarly interest in cultural and intellectual encounters between Catholic missionaries and Imāmī (Twelver) Šīʿī scholars in early-modern Safavid Iran. Two recently published volumes in the series Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History provide us with a state-of-the-art publication on this topic. With the continuing efforts of manuscript repositories in Iran in cataloguing and digitizing their collections, more hitherto unknown works th...The past few decades have seen a growing scholarly interest in cultural and intellectual encounters between Catholic missionaries and Imāmī (Twelver) Šīʿī scholars in early-modern Safavid Iran. Two recently published volumes in the series Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History provide us with a state-of-the-art publication on this topic. With the continuing efforts of manuscript repositories in Iran in cataloguing and digitizing their collections, more hitherto unknown works that reflect Šīʿī-Catholic interaction during the 17th and early 18th centuries are likely to surface. Studying even fragmentary copies from the vast Iranian (and Indian) collections of Persian manuscripts can further advance our knowledge about the relationship between religions and the inter-cultural dynamics that shaped their respective theologies. In this article, we use a thus far unstudied anti-Christian work by a missionary convert to Islam to explore how the Latin Bible and other books printed in Europe were used to substantiate Šīʿī doctrine. (...) » weiterlesen» einklappen

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DFG Fachgebiet:
Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Außereuropäische Kulturen, Judaistik und Religionswissenschaft

DDC Sachgruppe:
Andere Religionen