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The Medieval Church · c. 856–870
The Apologetic Treatise
Nonnus of Nisibis · 9th century
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What it is
A defence of Christian doctrine written in Armenia against both Muslim objections and rival Christian christologies, by a scholar imprisoned in Baghdad.
Why it lasted
A rare document of the three-cornered argument among Miaphysites, Chalcedonians, and Muslims in the Abbasid world.
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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