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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
It may seem strange that I should have chosen religious controversy as a subject on which to address members of the Royal Asiatic Society on the occasion of its centenary. But it is because, and not in spite of, the fact that the Society embraces so many Christian and Muhammadan scholars that I venture to exhume a mujādala which lived and died in the reign of the Caliph Al-Ma'mūn.
page 233 note 1 Un Traité des œuvres arabes de Théodore Abou-Kurra, Tripoli de Syrie, n.d.
page 233 note 2 Die arabischen Schriften des Theodor Abū Qurra, von Dr. Georg Graf. Forschungen zur christlichen Literatur und Dogmengeschichte. Paderborn, 1910. Band x, 3/4 Heft.
page 234 note 1 Polem. und apolog. Literatur in arab. Sprache, Leipzig, 1877Google Scholar.
page 234 note 2 JRAS., Jan., 1924.
page 236 note 1 Op. cit., p. 13.
page 236 note 2 Interpolations almost certainly are to be found in fols. 170 and 173 and other places.
page 237 note 1 Chronology of Ancient Nations, ed. Sachau, , London, 1879, p. 187Google Scholar.
page 237 note 2 The tolerance of Muslims towards those who ridicule and misquote the Qurān is well attested by the still extant work of Abu 'l 'Alā, Al Fuṣūl wal-Ghāyāt; see Nicholson, , LHA, p. 318Google Scholar. Abū 'Ubaida, a contemporary of Abū Qurra, is notorious for his misquotations from works sacred and profane (ib., pp. 344 f.).
page 237 note 3 It must be admitted, however, that the style is consistently inferior in our MS.
page 238 note 1 i, p. 338.
page 239 note 1 The names of the Muhammadan disputants are probably noms de plumes.
page 240 note 1 e.g. the Midrashic comments on Prov. viii, 22.
page 242 note 1 Or Liwā.