Sidney H Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 974795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney H Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney H |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…
Excursus I
Greek and Syriac texts dating back to the late seventh century CE bear the earliest notices of emergent Islam recorded by Christians living in the conquered territories of the Levant. Formal conversations between representative Muslims and Christians were recorded in written notices by the early years of the eighth century. Theological treatises written by Christians first appeared also in the eighth century. This article examines Christian theol…
Where We Can Battle for the Lord and Japan
Melquitas y musulmanes
Durante la expansión del Islam por Oriente Medio, los primeros autores calcedonianos que tuvieron conocimiento de las ideas religiosas que los invasores árabes traían, pusieron de relieve ciertas nociones que ellos entendían como confusas o negativas sobre Cristo. A mediados del siglo VIII, los araboparlantes calcedonianos de Siria-Palestina (que pronto serían denominados «Melquitas» por sus adversarios), comenzaron a citar el Corán con la intenc…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and Louis Massignon in Pursuit of God's Word
Said Nursi (1876–1960) and Louis Massignon (1883–1962) were contemporaries. Both of them were men of God in whose lives dramatic turning points changed the direction of their thinking and led them to devote themselves to the cause of re-awakening the religious consciousness of the people of their time. This article explores the striking parallels in their personal journeys, offers a comparison of their leading ideas and describes the far-reaching…
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur…
Fethullah Gulen and the 'People of the Book
Mystics and Sufi masters
The Cistercian, Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915–1968), author of numerous books on Christian spirituality, monasticism and social commentary, was a forerunner in popular inter‐religious dialogue in the twentieth century. In this connection, he is best known for his sympathetic explorations of themes from Asian religions, particularly Zen and other forms of Buddhism. This article calls attention to his studies in Islam, initially under the guida…
The ‘Philosophical Life’ in Tenth Century Baghdad
Asceticism in the Church of Syria
Many commentators on the history of asceticism in the Syrian Orient in the early Christian period have highlighted what they often call its encratic features. They cite the harsh and seemingly bizarre forms of ascetic life that flourished there. And everyone who knows anything at all about asceticism in Syria knows that it was home to that peculiar ascetical institution, the stylite—the holy man or woman who passed his or her life elevated above …
“Spirit in the Bread; Fire in the Wine”
Ephraem's “teaching songs” in Syriac had a didactic function in the context of the divine liturgy: to commend the doctrines of the scriptures to the congregations of worshippers! The present article surveys Ephraem's presentation of the scriptural teachings on the Eucharist, its meaning and significance, along with its power in Christian life
‘Faith Adoring the Mystery’
Byzantium and the Christians in the World of Islam
The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles. Andrew Palmer , Sebastian Brock , Robert Hoyland
The Muslim philosopher Al-Kindi and his Christian readers
Judging from repetitious appearances of her marital arms in the painted line-endings, the Psalter-Hours John Rylands Library Latin MS 117 probably belonged to Jeanne of Flanders (c.1272–1333), daughter of Count Robert III of Flanders and in 1288 second wife to Enguerrand IV of Coucy. Yet the line-endings also contain some 1,800 diminutive painted escutcheons, many of which refer to other members of the local nobility active during the 1280s. This…
The Kitab Misbah Al-'Aql of Severus Ibn Al-Muqaffa
After a brief sketch of the career of the Coptic bishop Severus ibn al-Muqaffa', and a survey of his published works in Arabic, the article concentrates on the author's important text called The Lamp of Understanding (Kitāb
The view of Islam from the monasteries of Palestine in the early c Abbasid period
Christians in the Holy Land, and particularly members of the monastic communities in the Judean desert, were the first to compose original works of theology in Arabic. These writers presented the doctrines of the church in an idiom which was calculated to appeal to the understanding of any speaker of Arabic who was familiar with the Qur'an and with the thought of the early Muslim mutakallimin. From these texts there emerges a view of Islam which …
Arab Christianity in the Monasteries of Ninth-Century Palestine
The Word in the Desert
Les Chrétientés d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude
Anthony David of Baghdad, Scribe and Monk of Mar Sabas
Forty years ago George Every called the attention of the scholarly world to the likelihood that in the oriental patriarchates after the time of John of Damascus the Arabic language increasingly became the language of the Melkite, or Roman (rūmī), community of Christians in the caliphate. They came to use Arabic, Every suggested, not only for scholarly purposes, but even for the divine liturgy, at least for the Scripture lessons.1 In the years sin…
The Monks of Palestine and the Growth of Christian Literature in Arabic
Ephraem the Syrian's Hymns 'Against Julian
Ephraem the Syrian's Hymns 'Against Julian
state before the city's gates, with a Persian flag flying from the ramparts of the citadel!3 Furthermore, a number of concrete details which Ephraem mentioned in the hymns, such as the emperor's issue of coins with the famous bull iconography on them, and his account of the attempt during Julian's reign to rebuild Jerusalem's temple, have also attracted the attention of historians. And Glen Bowersock has written that this attention to what he cal…
Fethullah Gulen and the 'People of the Book
Stephen of Ramlah and the Christian Kerygma in Arabic in Ninth-Century Palestine
In the period of time between the Islamic conquest and the coming of the crusaders to Palestine in 1099, Christian pilgrims from East and West continued to visit the Holy Land, and particularly Jerusalem, by the licence of the Islamic government. Among the western visitors during this period at least half a dozen of them published accounts of their journeys. However, these accounts tell one virtually nothing about the life of the local Church, be…
Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and Louis Massignon in Pursuit of God's Word
Said Nursi (1876–1960) and Louis Massignon (1883–1962) were contemporaries. Both of them were men of God in whose lives dramatic turning points changed the direction of their thinking and led them to devote themselves to the cause of re-awakening the religious consciousness of the people of their time. This article explores the striking parallels in their personal journeys, offers a comparison of their leading ideas and describes the far-reaching…
Where We Can Battle for the Lord and Japan
Byzantium and the Christians in the World of Islam
The Monks of Palestine and the Growth of Christian Literature in Arabic
Theodore Abū Qurrah's Arabic Tract on the Christian Practice of Venerating Images
ʿAmmar al-Basri
L'Église et l'islam sous Timothée I (780-823)
Stephen of Ramlah and the Christian Kerygma in Arabic in Ninth-Century Palestine
In the period of time between the Islamic conquest and the coming of the crusaders to Palestine in 1099, Christian pilgrims from East and West continued to visit the Holy Land, and particularly Jerusalem, by the licence of the Islamic government. Among the western visitors during this period at least half a dozen of them published accounts of their journeys. However, these accounts tell one virtually nothing about the life of the local Church, be…
Theodore Abū Qurrah's Arabic Tract on the Christian Practice of Venerating Images
W. H. C. Frend and "The Rise of Christianity" The Rise of Christianity . W. H. C. Frend
Ephraem the Syrian's Hymns 'Against Julian
Ephraem the Syrian's Hymns 'Against Julian
state before the city's gates, with a Persian flag flying from the ramparts of the citadel!3 Furthermore, a number of concrete details which Ephraem mentioned in the hymns, such as the emperor's issue of coins with the famous bull iconography on them, and his account of the attempt during Julian's reign to rebuild Jerusalem's temple, have also attracted the attention of historians. And Glen Bowersock has written that this attention to what he cal…
The Monks of Palestine and the Growth of Christian Literature in Arabic
Anthony David of Baghdad, Scribe and Monk of Mar Sabas
Forty years ago George Every called the attention of the scholarly world to the likelihood that in the oriental patriarchates after the time of John of Damascus the Arabic language increasingly became the language of the Melkite, or Roman (rūmī), community of Christians in the caliphate. They came to use Arabic, Every suggested, not only for scholarly purposes, but even for the divine liturgy, at least for the Scripture lessons.1 In the years sin…
Les Chrétientés d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude
The Word in the Desert
The Muslim philosopher Al-Kindi and his Christian readers
Judging from repetitious appearances of her marital arms in the painted line-endings, the Psalter-Hours John Rylands Library Latin MS 117 probably belonged to Jeanne of Flanders (c.1272–1333), daughter of Count Robert III of Flanders and in 1288 second wife to Enguerrand IV of Coucy. Yet the line-endings also contain some 1,800 diminutive painted escutcheons, many of which refer to other members of the local nobility active during the 1280s. This…
The Kitab Misbah Al-'Aql of Severus Ibn Al-Muqaffa
After a brief sketch of the career of the Coptic bishop Severus ibn al-Muqaffa', and a survey of his published works in Arabic, the article concentrates on the author's important text called The Lamp of Understanding (Kitāb
The view of Islam from the monasteries of Palestine in the early c Abbasid period
Christians in the Holy Land, and particularly members of the monastic communities in the Judean desert, were the first to compose original works of theology in Arabic. These writers presented the doctrines of the church in an idiom which was calculated to appeal to the understanding of any speaker of Arabic who was familiar with the Qur'an and with the thought of the early Muslim mutakallimin. From these texts there emerges a view of Islam which …
Arab Christianity in the Monasteries of Ninth-Century Palestine
‘Faith Adoring the Mystery’
Byzantium and the Christians in the World of Islam
The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles. Andrew Palmer , Sebastian Brock , Robert Hoyland
“Spirit in the Bread; Fire in the Wine”
Ephraem's “teaching songs” in Syriac had a didactic function in the context of the divine liturgy: to commend the doctrines of the scriptures to the congregations of worshippers! The present article surveys Ephraem's presentation of the scriptural teachings on the Eucharist, its meaning and significance, along with its power in Christian life
Asceticism in the Church of Syria
Many commentators on the history of asceticism in the Syrian Orient in the early Christian period have highlighted what they often call its encratic features. They cite the harsh and seemingly bizarre forms of ascetic life that flourished there. And everyone who knows anything at all about asceticism in Syria knows that it was home to that peculiar ascetical institution, the stylite—the holy man or woman who passed his or her life elevated above …
The ‘Philosophical Life’ in Tenth Century Baghdad
Mystics and Sufi masters
The Cistercian, Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915–1968), author of numerous books on Christian spirituality, monasticism and social commentary, was a forerunner in popular inter‐religious dialogue in the twentieth century. In this connection, he is best known for his sympathetic explorations of themes from Asian religions, particularly Zen and other forms of Buddhism. This article calls attention to his studies in Islam, initially under the guida…
Fethullah Gulen and the 'People of the Book
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Philosophy (23 works) · History (22 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (20 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (19 works) · Art (17 works) · Ancient history (16 works) · Theology (15 works) · Classics (14 works) · Islam (10 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (9 works)