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The Medieval Church · c. 782–783
The Apology before the Caliph al-Mahdi
Timothy I · c. 728–823
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What it is
A patriarch's own record of two days of courteous questioning by the caliph on the Trinity, the crucifixion, and whether the gospels foretold Muhammad.
Why it lasted
The classic text of Christian–Muslim dialogue, circulated in Syriac and Arabic for centuries as a model of how to answer without giving offence or ground.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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