Suchergebnisse

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

The stories - subject of this book - were invented in different latitudes during different historical periods, from different societies and different political situation. They tell about the same process - the adoption of Islam in the Balkans, thought somewhere and once as a liberation and national awareness elsewhere and at other times - as a catastrophe. The only official history tells many fragmented stories produced by larger or smaller groups, by more or less people. The stories are alike and not alike. They sometime match. And sometime they repel each other. Or disagree.