Christianity and other religions -- Islam
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Or Ms 65: رسالة باسیفین Risālat bā-sayfayn, 1229 A.H., 1813 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 65
Scope and Contents
A treatise on religious controversy between Christians and Muslims, by Jawwād Sabāt Bā-Sayfayn, who dedicated it to the Wazīr As'ad Pāshā, son of Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad.
Dates:
1229 A.H.; 1813 C.E.
Or Ms 68: آئینه حق نماء Ā'īnah-i ḥaqnamā', undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 68
Scope and Contents
A work on the doctrines and ethics of the Christian religion, differences between its tenets and those of Islam, containing evidence aiming to prove its superiority over other religions. It was written and completed in 1018 A.H. (1609 C.E.) and dedicated to the Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr, by Geronimo, or, as some write it, Hieronymo Xavier, a native of Navarre, and a Jesuit, who came from Goa, where he was attached to the Catholic mission from 1571 C.E. till his death at the same place in...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 372: لوامع ربّانی در ردّ شبهات نصرانی Lawāmi‘-i rabbānī dar radd-i shubuhāt-i naṣrānī, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 372
Scope and Contents
A treatise giving the Muslim side in a controversy with the Christian Geronimo Xavier, and in vindication of Islam. It was compiled, according to numerous quatrains at the end, each line of which forms a chronogram, in 1031 A.H. (1621 C.E.), by Sayyid Aḥmad b. Zayn al-‘Ābidīn al-‘Alawī al-‘Āmilī. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) for more information.
Dates:
undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)