Muslim-Christian Polemics Across the Mediterranean: The Splendid Replies of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285)

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In Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella provides an exposition and analysis of Shiha¯b al-Di¯n al-Qara¯fi¯’s (d. 684/1285) Splendid Replies. This book is among the most extensive and most important medieval Muslim refutations of Christianity.

Review

'We have to thank Diego Sarrió Cucarella for having devoted his academic skill and theological reflexion to the study of al-Aǧwiba l-fāḫira 'an al-as'ila l-fāǧira. Certainly, "al-Qarāfī's Splendid Replies is among the most extensive and the most important medieval Muslim refutations of Christianity, and the primary significance of this study is to provide detailed access to its argumentation and intellectual context
for the first time in a western language", the English one'.

Maurice BORRMANS in Islamochristiana 40 (2014)

About the Author

Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella received his PhD in 2014 from the Department of Theology at Georgetown University. His publications have focused on the intellectual history of Christian-Muslim relations. He lectures at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI),
Rome.