Both Christianity and Islam claim the Virgin Mary, but most Christians throughout history have seen her as a barrier between the two religions, not a bridge. In the medieval period, Latin Christians noted errors in QurʾÄnic Mariology and raised standards of the Virgin in wars against Muslims. By the sixteenth century, the use of Mary as an interfaith barrier escalated among Catholics who employed her to combat both Ottomans and Protestants. Yet two medieval churchmen, William of Tripoli and Nicholas of Cusa, stressed concord between Christian and Muslim Mariologies, despite the fact that they were both writing at times of great interreligious strife: William soon before the fall of Acre in 1291, and Nicholas soon after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This article discusses how William and Nicholas, unlike most of their confreres, saw Mary as a theological link between Islam and Christianity. This perspective represents but one point in the historical trajectory of Christian views of Mary vis-à -vis Islam, a spectrum which has shifted from seeing the Virgin as either a bridge or barrier, depending on her polemical or irenic utility.
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See Timothy Winter, âPulchra et Luna, Some Reflections on the Marian Theme in Christian-Muslim Dialogue,â Journal of Ecumenical Studies 36.3 (1999): 439â469; Jane Smith and Yvonne Haddad, âThe Virgin Mary in Islamic Traditions and Commentary,â Muslim World 79 (1989): 161â187.
As outlined by Sidney H. Griffith, The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), 64.
Riccoldo, Epistolae, 161. Riccoldo claims that he was in Baghdad while saying this prayer, soon after the fall of Acre in 1291.
Riccoldo, Liber Peregrinationis, 184. See also the critical Latin edition of Felix Fabriâs Wanderings in Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Ãgypte (1480â1483), 2 vols., ed. Jean Meyers and Nicole Chareyron (Montpellier: Publications de lâUniversité Paul-Valéry et du cercam, 2000 and 2003).
Thomas OâMeara, âThe Theology and Times of William of Tripoli: A Different View of Islam,â Theological Studies 69 (2008): 80â98.
Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles, 1.6. Another example is Peter the Venerable, whose condemnation of the QurʾÄnâs mix of truth and falsehood is much more vitriolic. See the Latin edition of Peterâs Summa contra Sectam in Schriften zum Islam, ed. Reinhold Glei (Altenborge: cis Verlag, 1985).
See John Tolan, âSaracen Philosophers Secretly Deride Islam,â Medieval Encounters 11 (2002): 184â208.
David Bertaina, âChristians in Medieval Shīʿī Historiography,â Medieval Encounters 19 (2013): 379â407, especially 385â389, 394, 406.
Maura Hearden, âLessons from Zeitoun: A Marian Proposal for Christian-Muslim Dialogue.â Journal of Ecumenical Studies 47.3 (2012): 409â426.
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Both Christianity and Islam claim the Virgin Mary, but most Christians throughout history have seen her as a barrier between the two religions, not a bridge. In the medieval period, Latin Christians noted errors in QurʾÄnic Mariology and raised standards of the Virgin in wars against Muslims. By the sixteenth century, the use of Mary as an interfaith barrier escalated among Catholics who employed her to combat both Ottomans and Protestants. Yet two medieval churchmen, William of Tripoli and Nicholas of Cusa, stressed concord between Christian and Muslim Mariologies, despite the fact that they were both writing at times of great interreligious strife: William soon before the fall of Acre in 1291, and Nicholas soon after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This article discusses how William and Nicholas, unlike most of their confreres, saw Mary as a theological link between Islam and Christianity. This perspective represents but one point in the historical trajectory of Christian views of Mary vis-à -vis Islam, a spectrum which has shifted from seeing the Virgin as either a bridge or barrier, depending on her polemical or irenic utility.
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