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Synopsis
This book presents translations of and studies on two commentaries on Revelation by Arabic-speaking
Christian theologians writing in thirteenth-century Egypt: Biilus al-BUshT and Ibn Katib Qay ar.
Synopsis
The first publication in a new series--Christian Arabic Texts in Translation, edited by Stephen Davis--this book presents English-language excerpts from thirteenth-century commentaries on the Apocalypse of John by two Egyptian authors, Būlus al-Būshī and Ibn Kātib Qayṣar. Accompanied by scholarly introductions and critical annotations, this edition will provide a valuable entry-point to important but understudied theological work taking place at the at the meeting-points of the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds.