Etudes sur le christianisme arabe au Moyen Age Tapa dura - 1995

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This volume brings together a set of articles on the history of eastern Christianity and the Arabic traditions which, from the 8th century, gradually superseded those in Greek, Syriac and Coptic. In the first group of studies, Professor Troupeau looks at a number of particular aspects of Arabic Christianity - the literary history of the 10th-12th centuries (including a general survey of the topic, which opens the volume), its social history (monasteries and festivals), and the development of its own specific vocabulary. The following articles include editions and translations of scriptural texts and philosophical and theological treatises by Christian writers, Melkite, Jacobite, and Nestorian, and present works by some contemporary Muslim authors who were interested in Christianity. Dans ce volume, l'auteur a runi des articles destins faire mieux conna(R)tre le christianisme oriental selon la tradition arabe qui, partir du VIIIe sicle, se substitua progressivement aux traditions grecque, syriaque et copte. Un premier groupe d'articles concerne diffrents aspects du christianisme arabe: histoire littraire du Xe au XII sicle, sociologie religieuse (couvents et fates), lexicographie (vocabulaire spcifique). Un second groupe comprend des ditions et des traductions de textes scripturaires et de traits philosophico-thologiques d'auteurs chrtiens des diffrentes confessions: melkites, jacobites et nestoriens, mais aussi d'auteurs musulmans s'intressant au christianisme.