INTRODUCTION --- Emmanouela Grypeou

ISLAM AND ORIENS CHRISTIANUS: MAKKA 610-622 ad --- Irfan Shahīd

THE FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PATRIARCH SOPHRONIUS OF JERUSALEM AND THE CALIPH 'UMAR IBN AL-KHATTĀB: FRIENDS OR FOES? --- Daniel J. Sahas

IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF IMPERIAL PRESENTATION IN THE WAKE OF ISLAM’S VICTORY --- David Olster

THE EARLY MUSLIM RAIDS INTO ANATOLIA AND BYZANTINE REACTIONS UNDER EMPEROR CONSTANS II --- Walter E. Kaegi

COPTS AND THE ISLAM OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY --- Harald Suermann

ĀMĪD IN THE SEVENTH-CENTURY SYRIAC LIFE OF THEODŪTĒ --- Andrew Palmer

DIE ISLAMISCHE ZEIT IN GIWARGIS WARDAS ‘ONITA ÜBER DIE KATHOLIKOI DES OSTENS --- Martin Tamcke

POLITICAL POWER AND RIGHT RELIGION IN THE EAST SYRIAN DISPUTATION BETWEEN A MONK OF BĒT HĀLĒ AND AN ARAB NOTABLE --- Gerrit J. Reinink

THE PERCEPTION AND PRESENTATION OF THE ARAB CONQUEST IN SYRIAC HISTORIOGRAPHY: HOW DID THE CHANGING SOCIAL POSITION OF THE SYRIAN ORTHODOX COMMUNITY INFLUENCE THE ACCOUNT OF THEIR HISTORIOGRAPHERS? --- Jan J. van Ginkel

NEW TESTAMENT CITATIONS IN THE HADĪTH LITERATURE AND THE QUESTION OF EARLY GOSPEL TRANSLATIONS INTO ARABIC --- David Cook

MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY IN AN UNEDITED SYRIAC TEXT Revelations and Testimonies about Our Lord’s Dispensation --- Muriel Debié

FOLLY TO THE HUNAFĀ": THE CRUCIFIXION IN EARLY CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM CONTROVERSY --- Mark N. Swanson

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS AND NEW QUESTIONS --- David Thomas

Answers for the Shaykh: A ‘MELKITE’ ARABIC TEXT FROM SINAI AND THE DOCTRINES OF THE TRINITY AND THE INCARNATION IN ‘ARAB ORTHODOX’ APOLOGETICS --- Sidney H. Griffith

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