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«Хотя и не обязательно для меня то, что приведено в Коране, я выведу из него доказательство»: Третья беседа Илии, митрополита Нисивина, и везира Абу-л-Касима ал-Магриби
“Though it is not obligatory for me what is stated in the Qurʾān, I will get proof from it”: Third conversation between Elias, Metropolitan of Nisibis, and wazir Abu ’l-Qasim al-Maghribi
The Book of Sessions (Kitāb al-maǧālis) of Elias of Nisibis is a remarkable example of the Arab-Christian literature of the 11th century CE which is still pending its full critical edition. The content of the book is the discussions between Metropolitan Elias (975–1046) and his Muslim vis-à-vis – wazir Abū ʾl-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Maghribī (981–1027). This work demonstrates the intellectual contacts between the different religious traditions of medieval Arab culture in its flourishing age as well as characteristics of the Christian literature developed in the Syro-Mesopotamian region in that epoch. The present publication provides a critical survey of the treatise which is followed by a Russian translation of the third session. While working on the article and the translation, the author used manuscripts from the collections of Berlin and Aleppo.