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"Dionysius Bar Ṣalībī's Treatise against the Jews offers rare and illuminating insight into Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations during the Crusader era, not from the perspective of western Crusaders, but from the frequently neglected viewpoint of the Oriental Orthodox tradition. Bar Ṣalībī, a distinguished hierarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church, lived in a turbulent time of heightened tensions in the Levant. The Treatise against the Jews, which forms part of the corpus of Syriac polemical works, investigates the prejudices of Christians and Jews towards each other during the 12 century AD.This edition and translation is based on all the available manuscripts of the text, accompanied by extensive introductions, notes and commentary as well as studies of its place in the field of Syriac Patristic polemics"--

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Historical Evolutionary Approach in the Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 2 - G.S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building -- 3 - The Hindu Nationalist Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 4 - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Nation: Situating G.S. Ghurye -- 5 - Radha Kamal Mukerjee -A Note -- 6 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries: Founding Fathers of Sociology in India -- 7 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology -- 8 - Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and Its Relevance To-Day: Some Reflections -- 9 - Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in the Sociology of D.P. Mukerji -- 10 - D.P. Mukerji 1894-1961: A Centenary Tribute -- 11 - D.P. Mukerji and the Middle Class in India -- 12 - On Srinivas's 'Sociology' -- 13 - The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading 'Backwards' from Srinivas to Weber -- 14 - M.N. Srinivas, Max Weber, and Functionalism -- 15 - Disjunctions between Field, Method and Concept: An Appraisal of M.N. Srinivas -- 16 - On M.N. Srinivas and Indian Sociology: The Challeng eof Understanding Indian Society-Critique, Generosity and Transformations -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Case for Inclusiveness -- Chapter 2: Primacy of Action -- Chapter 3: Economic Action -- Chapter 4: Methodological Outposts -- Chapter 5: Departure from Convention -- Chapter 6: In Practice -- Chapter 7: In Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Bahira -- The apocalypse of Bahira -- Bahira's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology -- Protection and recognition-Bahira and Q 5:82 -- The physics of heaven -- The Qur'an against Islam -- The legend outside the legend -- Bahira the source -- Bahira the heretic -- Bahira the false witness -- Bahira the victim -- Jewish traditions about Bahira -- Bahira the forecaster -- Concluding discussion -- Texts and translations -- The recensions and the manuscript tradition -- Some characteristics of the recensions -- Textual genealogy -- Manuscripts -- Conspectus siglorum -- Methodological considerations -- The East-Syrian recension -- The West-Syrian recension -- The short Arabic recension -- The long Arabic recension