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The Medieval Church · c. 800–815

On the Veneration of Icons

Theodore Abu Qurrah · c. 750–c. 830

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What it is

A defence of images written in Arabic for Christians who had stopped venerating them under Muslim and Jewish criticism, arguing the case on grounds a Muslim could follow.

Why it lasted

Iconoclasm answered not from Byzantium but from inside the Islamic world, by the first significant Arabic-speaking Christian theologian known by name.

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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