Dayṣanīs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Dayṣanīs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Crone, Patricia

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061384
Doc. NO	:	ALei1781
Main Entry	:	Crone, Patricia
Title & Author	:	Dayṣanīs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Crone, Patricia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,468 words)
Abstract	:	The Dayṣanīs were the followers of Bar Dayṣān (in Western sources Bardesanes, d. c.222 C.E.), an Edessene Christian who was deemed heretical within a century of his death. Muslim sources say very little about the Dayṣanīs as a Christian sect and rarely even know that they were Christians. They encountered them mainly as participants in disputations about kalām al-falsafa , natural science pursued in dialectical form, in which the focus was on cosmology as a rational edifice capable of standing alone, without scriptural support. “Dayṣanīs” were those who
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1781.pdf