{"id":36209,"date":"2025-04-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/the-influence-of-christian-theology-on-the-development-of-taw%e1%b8%a5id-in-early-kalam\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:00:00","slug":"the-influence-of-christian-theology-on-the-development-of-taw%e1%b8%a5id-in-early-kalam","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-influence-of-christian-theology-on-the-development-of-taw%e1%b8%a5id-in-early-kalam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influence of Christian Theology on the Development of Taw\u1e25\u012bd in Early Kal\u0101m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did Christian theology, in turn, help shape the Muslim doctrine of divine oneness? Fr Romain Louge shows how the first Muslim theologians, the Mu\u02bftazila in particular, developed their conception of taw\u1e25\u012bd partly in response to Christian theological language, especially its Trinitarian formulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chapter thus brings out the density of theological exchange between Christians and Muslims in the first centuries of Islam, when the two traditions answered one another in a shared scholarly language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chapter by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/chercheur\/romain-louge\/\"><strong>Romain Louge<\/strong><\/a> appeared in the collective volume <em>Islamic Perspectives on God and (Other) Monotheism(s)<\/em> (ed. Wahid M. Amin, Aaron W. Hughes and Sajjad H. Rizvi, AMI Press, 2025, pp. 38-59).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":36199,"template":"","class_list":["post-36209","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Influence of Christian Theology on the Development of Taw\u1e25\u012bd in Early Kal\u0101m - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/the-influence-of-christian-theology-on-the-development-of-taw\u1e25id-in-early-kalam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Influence of Christian Theology on the Development of Taw\u1e25\u012bd in Early Kal\u0101m - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract How did Christian theology, in turn, help shape the Muslim doctrine of divine oneness? 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