The Muslim reception of biblical materials: Ibn Qutayba and his Aʿlām al-nubuwwa

The two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the Prophet Muhammad from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam ʿAlī Ibn Rabban al-?abarī (b. ca. 194/810, d. 251/865) and the Aʿlām al-n...

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Published in:Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Main Author: 1980- Schmidtke, Sabine (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2011]
In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Further subjects:B Muslim Bible reception
B Ibn al-Jawzī
B Aʿlām al-nubuwwa
B Ibn Rabban al-?abarī
B Ibn Qutayba
B Bible in Arabic
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Summary:The two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the Prophet Muhammad from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam ʿAlī Ibn Rabban al-?abarī (b. ca. 194/810, d. 251/865) and the Aʿlām al-nubuwwa by Ibn Rabban's contemporary Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba (b. 213/828, d. 276/889). Ibn Qutayba's Aʿlām al-nubuwwa clearly eclipsed Ibn Rabban's Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla in popularity - the text was used over the following centuries by various authors as a reference text for the biblical material it contained. An incomplete and (as it seems) unique manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's work, which is preserved in the Dār al-Kutub al-?āhiriyya in Damascus, has mostly escaped scholars' attention until now. This article contains a critical edition of the first eight sections of the text, which contain biblical materials.
ISSN:0959-6410
Contains:Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2011.568810