This volume presents Theodore Abu Qurrah's apologetic Christian theology in dialogue with
Islam. It explores the question of whether in his attempt to convey orthodoxy in Arabic to the
Muslim reader Abu Qurrah diverged from creedal doctrinal Christian theology and compromised
its core content. A comprehensive study of the theology of Abu Qurrah and its relation to
Islamic and pre-Islamic orthodox Melkite thought has not yet been pursued in modern
scholarship. Awad addresses this gap in scholarship by offering a thorough analytic
hermeneutics of Abu Qurrah's apologetic thought with specific attention to his theological
thought on the Trinity and Christology. This study takes scholarship beyond attempts at editing
and translating Abu Qurrah's texts and offers scholars students and lay readers in the fields
of Arabic Christianity Byzantine theology Christian-Muslim dialogues and historical theology
an unprecedented scientific study of Abu Qurrah's theological mind.
