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Acknowledged as a leading medical expert in his day, and secretary to a succession of caliphs in the mid-ninth century, the Nestorian Christian <b>ʿAlī ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī</b> converted to Islam around the age of 70. He then wrote <i>Radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā</i>, a recantation of his former faith, and <i>Kitāb al-dīn wa-l-dawla</i>, a defence of the Prophet Muḥammad based substantially on biblical proof-texts. The range of arguments he produced against the soundness of his former faith in these two w
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- Author
- Rifaat Ebied (editor), David Thomas (editor)
- Publisher
- Brill; Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004309159
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Religion, Literary Fiction, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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