Mark N Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5903302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark N Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark N |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 1100 East 55th Street, Chicago, il 60615 USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517
The Fatimid Empire and its Population
The Martyrdom of Jirjis (Muzāḥim)
The tenth-century neomartyr Jirjis (called Muzāḥim before his conversion to Christianity and baptism) is well known from the précis of his Martyrdom preserved in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion (entry for 19 Baʾūna). The full text of the Martyrdom (as preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript Cairo, Coptic Museum, History 469) allows us to date Muzāḥim’s imprisonments and execution to the year 978. If, as is probable, the Martyrdom was composed …
Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt (10th–12th Centuries ce)
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is the third part of a general history of relations between the faiths. Covering the period from 1050 to 1200, it comprises a series of introductory essays, together with the main body of more than one hundred detailed entries on all the works by Christians and Muslims about and against one another that are known from this period. These entries provide biographical details of the auth…
A curious and delicate correspondence
An important collection of ninth-century apologetic texts in Arabic consists in the Burhān of one Ibn al-Munajjim, in which he attempts to construct a proof of Muhammad's prophethood, and separate responses by the Christian scholars Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and Qusṭā ibn Lūqā. Although Zilio-Grandi and Samir's recent monograph Una corrispondenza islamo-cristiana sull'origine divina dell'Islam (Turin, 2003) focuses exclusively on the Ibn al-Munajjim–Qusṭā…
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (641–1517)
In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of “apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological resistance” were determinative for the cultural construction of Egyptian church leadership in late antiquity. This book, Volume 2, shows that the medieval Coptic popes (641–1517 ce) were regularly portrayed as standing in continuity with their saintly predecessors; however, at the same time, they were active in crea…
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 1 (600-900)
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1 (CMR1) is the first part of a general history of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur'an, Qur'an commentaries…
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islami…
Beyond Prooftexting
The Specifically Egyptian Context of a Coptic Arabic Text
The catechetical compilation Kitab al-Idah ("The Book of the Elucudation") of the tenth-century Coptic bishop and theologian Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa' is one of the most frequently copied theological texts of the Arabic-speaking Coptic Church. While its first eight chapters deal with the principal doctrines and practices of the faith, Chapter Nine-omitted from the most recent printed edition of the work-must be understood against the backdrop of th…
A Study of Twentieth‐century Commentary on Sūrat Al‐nūr (24)
A Study of Twentieth‐century Commentary on Sūrat Al‐nūr (24)
The Specifically Egyptian Context of a Coptic Arabic Text
The catechetical compilation Kitab al-Idah ("The Book of the Elucudation") of the tenth-century Coptic bishop and theologian Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa' is one of the most frequently copied theological texts of the Arabic-speaking Coptic Church. While its first eight chapters deal with the principal doctrines and practices of the faith, Chapter Nine-omitted from the most recent printed edition of the work-must be understood against the backdrop of th…
Beyond Prooftexting
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islami…
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 1 (600-900)
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1 (CMR1) is the first part of a general history of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur'an, Qur'an commentaries…
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (641–1517)
In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of “apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological resistance” were determinative for the cultural construction of Egyptian church leadership in late antiquity. This book, Volume 2, shows that the medieval Coptic popes (641–1517 ce) were regularly portrayed as standing in continuity with their saintly predecessors; however, at the same time, they were active in crea…
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is the third part of a general history of relations between the faiths. Covering the period from 1050 to 1200, it comprises a series of introductory essays, together with the main body of more than one hundred detailed entries on all the works by Christians and Muslims about and against one another that are known from this period. These entries provide biographical details of the auth…
A curious and delicate correspondence
An important collection of ninth-century apologetic texts in Arabic consists in the Burhān of one Ibn al-Munajjim, in which he attempts to construct a proof of Muhammad's prophethood, and separate responses by the Christian scholars Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and Qusṭā ibn Lūqā. Although Zilio-Grandi and Samir's recent monograph Una corrispondenza islamo-cristiana sull'origine divina dell'Islam (Turin, 2003) focuses exclusively on the Ibn al-Munajjim–Qusṭā…
The Fatimid Empire and its Population
The Martyrdom of Jirjis (Muzāḥim)
The tenth-century neomartyr Jirjis (called Muzāḥim before his conversion to Christianity and baptism) is well known from the précis of his Martyrdom preserved in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion (entry for 19 Baʾūna). The full text of the Martyrdom (as preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript Cairo, Coptic Museum, History 469) allows us to date Muzāḥim’s imprisonments and execution to the year 978. If, as is probable, the Martyrdom was composed …
Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt (10th–12th Centuries ce)
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517
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