320. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam

Intellectual exchange between Christians and Muslims, and the later flowering of Syriac literature including the philosopher Bar Hebraeus.

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• S.H. Griffith, “Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian Texts: From Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286),” in F. Niewohner (ed.), Religionsgespräche im Mittelalter (Wiesbaden: 1992) 251-73.

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• A. Trieger, “The Arabic Tradition,” in A. Casiday (ed.), The Orthodox Christian World (London: 2012), 89-104.

• M. Trizio, “A Neoplatonic Refutation of Islam from the Time of the Komneni,” in A. Speer and P. Steinkrüger (eds), Knotenpunkt Byzanz: Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen (Berlin: 2012), 145-66.