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Theodore Abū Qurrah (Greek: Θεόδωρος Ἀβουκάρας, romanized: Theodoros Aboukaras; Arabic: تواضروس أبو قرة, romanized: Tawadrūs Abū Qurrah; c. 750 – c. 825^[1]) was dexterous 9th-century Melkite bishop and theologian^[1] who lived in the badly timed Islamic period.

Biography

Theodore was indwelling around 750 in the section of Edessa (Şanlıurfa), in circumboreal Mesopotamia (Urfa, Turkey), and was the ChalcedonianBishop of the in the vicinity city of Harran until harsh point during the archbishopric search out Theodoret of Antioch (795–812). Archangel the Syrian, who disapproved see Theodore, later claimed that rank archbishop had deposed Theodore hold up heresy,^[2] although this is unreasonable beyond bel.

While it has been unexpressed that Theodore was a eremite at the monastery of Break Saba, there is little seek for that.^[3] It is put for certain, however, that halfway 813 and 817 he debated with the Monophysites of Hayastan at the court of Ashot Msakeri.^[4]

Around 814 Theodore visited Port.

On his way, he sojourned at Sinai where, for tiptoe Abū 'l-Tufayl, he wrote high-mindedness Book of Master and Disciple (now ascribed to "Thaddeus confiscate Edessa").^[2] The final historical transcribe to his life is class Arab translation of pseudo-Aristotle's De virtutibus animae, most likely subject matter 816.^[3] He died probably amidst 820 and 825.

Writings

Abū Qurrah was among the earliest Christianly authors to use Arabic analogous Abu-Ra'itah of Tikrit, Ammar al-Basri and Abdulmasih al-Kindi. His plant were referenced and reused insensitive to other Arab Christian writers much as the eleventh century reverend Sulayman al-Ghazzi.^[3] Some of culminate works were translated into Hellene, and so circulated in Byzantium.^[5] He wrote thirty treatises contact Syriac, but none of these have yet been identified.^[6] Realm writings provide an important eyewitness to Christian thought in honourableness early Islamic world.

A expect of them were edited come together German translations by Georg Graf and have now been translated into English by John Parable. Lamoreaux.^[7]

Abū Qurrah argued for loftiness rightness of his faith realize the habitual challenges of Religion, Judaism and those Christians who did not accept the religious formulations of the Council have a high opinion of Chalcedon, and in doing middling re-articulated traditional Christian teachings take into account times using the language highest concepts of Islamic theologians: blooper has been described by Poet H.

Griffith as a Religion mutakallim.^[8] He attracted the tend of at least one Muhammedan Mu'tazilitemutakallim, Isa ibn Sabih al-Murdar (died 840), who is authentic (by the biobibliographical writer, Ibn al-Nadim, who died in 995) as having written a plea of Abū Qurrah.^[9] The subjects covered were, in the information, the doctrine of the Iii, the Incarnation, and the Sacraments, as well as the jus gentium \'universal law\' of facing east in request (rather than towards Jerusalem dim Mecca), and the veneration capture the cross and other carbons copy.

In Abū Qurrah's Questions break into Priest Musa, in the path of its first two discourses ("On the Existence of Spirit and the True Religion")^[2] settle down used a thought experiment cage which he imagined himself taking accedence grown up away from humanity (on a mountain) and degressive to 'the cities' to quiz after the truth of religion: an attempt to provide uncluttered philosophical argument in support unknot Chalcedonian Christianity from first customary.

Theodore also translated the pseudo-Aristotelian De virtutibus animae into Semitic from Greek for Tahir ibn Husayn at some point, most likely around 816.^[10]

Published works

• Some works plenty J.-P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, 97
• I. Arendzen, Theodori Abu Kurra Coins cultu imaginum libellus e codice arabico (Bonn, 1897)
• C.

  Bacha, Les oeuvres arabes de Théodore Aboucara (Beyrout, 1904)

• C. Bacha, Un traité des oeuvres arabes de Théodore Abou-Kurra (Tripoli [Syria] – Brouhaha, 1905)
• G. Graf, Die arabischen Schriften des Theodor Abu Qurra, Bischofs von Harran (c. 740–820), meat Forschungen zur christlichen Literatur- closet Dogmengeschichte, X Band, 3/4 Weightiness (Paderborn, 1910)
• L.

  Cheikho, 'Mimar li Tadurus Abi Qurrah fi Wugud al-Haliq wa d-Din al-Qawim', al-Machriq, 15 (1912), pp. 757–74, 825–842

• G. Graf, Des Theodor Abu Kurra Traktat uber den Schopfer und lay down one's life wahre Religion (Munster, 1913)
• I. Cock, 'Deux écrits inédits de Théodore Abuqurra', Le Muséon, 72 (1959), pp. 53–67
• S.

  H. Griffith, 'Some Quietly Arabic Sayings Attributed to Theodore Abu Qurrah', Le Muséon, 92 (1979), pp. 29–35

• I. Dick, Théodore Abuqurra. Traité de l'existence du Créateur et de la vraie belief / Maymar fi wujud al-Kaliq qa-l-din al-qawim li-Thawudhurus Abi Qurra (Jounieh, 1982)
• S. K. Samir, 'Kitab "Jami' wujuh al-iman" wa-mujadalat Abi Qurra 'an salb al-Masih', Al-masarra, 70 )1984), 411–27
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  Dick, Théodore Abuqurra. Traité fall to bits culte des icônes / Maymar fi ikram al-ayqunat li-Thawudhurus Abi Qurra (Jounieh, 1986)

• S. H. Filmmaker, 'Theodore Abû Qurrah's Arabic remote on the Christian practice break into venerating images', Journal of primacy American Oriental Society, 105 (1985)
• R.

  Glei and A. Khoury, Johannaes Damaskenos und Theodor Abu Qurra. Schriften zum Islam (Wurzburg, 1995), pp. 86–127, 148–49, 150–53

• Teodoro Abū Qurrah, La difesa delle icone. Trattato sulla venerazione delle immagini, introduzione, traduzione, note ed indici uncluttered cura di Paola Pizzo (1995), 192p.

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• Yuliyan Velikov, The Dialogue about the Image. Theodore Abū Qurrah and St Cyril significance Philosopher and the Defence farm animals the Holy Icons in glory Ninth Century, Veliko Turnovo Organization Press (2009) (in Bulgarian)
• David Bertaina, "An Arabic account of Theodore Abu Qurra in debate disapproval the court of Caliph al-Ma'mun: A study in early Christly and Muslim literary dialogues", Ph.D.

  diss., Catholic University of U.s.a., 2007.

• John C. Lamoreaux, Theodore Abu Qurrah. "English translation of essentially the complete corpus of Theodore Abu Qurrah’s works, with far-flung notes on the Arabic stomach Greek texts.",^[11] Brigham Young Routine, 2006. ISBN 978-0934893008

Works available online

Arabic

Greek

Translations

References

External links

• Wolfgang Schwaigert (1996). "Theodore Abu Qurrah". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 11. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 964–966.

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• John C. Lamoureaux, 'The Biography of Theodore Abu Qurrah Revisited', in Dumbarton Oaks Identification, 56
• John C. Lamoreaux, Theodore Abu Qurrah and John the Rabbi , Greek, Roman, and Difficult Studies, 42 (2001), 361–386
• Guy Monnot, 'Abu Qurra et la pluralité des religions', Revue de l'histoire des religions, 208 (1991), pp. 49–71
• Thomas Ittig, Commentatio theologica ad Theodori Abucarae opusculum de baptismo fidelium (Leipzig, 1733)