Christians and Tafsir: Interreligious Readings of Muslim Exegetical Sources from the Middle Ages to Early-Modern Times

Most of the scholarly research about the Christian textual production engaging with Islam in medieval and early modern times concentrates on the role of the Qur’anic text in such works. The role of Tafsīr (Qur’an commentary) in those texts has not been directly and systematically object of research. This book reunites contributions by international specialists that look for the presence of Tafsīr in texts by authors that go from Syrian and Coptic Christians from the 8^th and 11^th centuries (...