David Bertaina, Christian and Muslim Dialogues. The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic Middle East (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011), 247pp. + Bibliography and Index, Adamantius 19 (2014,) 605-607

Abstract

The article reviews a book published in 2011 by David Bertaina. The book explores the religious uses of Christian and Muslim literary dialogues written between the 7th and the early 9th centuries, although Christian-Muslim dialogue literature flourished especially in 9th century Iraq.