Table of Contents

Foreword   x

List of Illustrations and Maps   xv

Abbreviations   xvii

Umar Ryad, Introduction: The Ottoman Empire in the 19th century   1

Heleen L. Murre-van den Berg, Syriac literature and Muslim-Christian relations under the Ottomans, 16th-19th centuries   27

Barbara Henning and Taisiya Leber, Print culture and Muslim-Christian relations   39

Florian Krobb, Framing Muslim fanaticism at the end of the 19th century. German accounts of the Mahdist uprising   63

Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1800-1914   81

Anatolia and South Eastern Europe   83

Molla Mustafa Bašeskija Kerima Filan   85

Işkodravî Necmettin Kızılkaya   91

Şaban Kâmi Efendi Âmidî Ayşe İçöz   95

Pertev Edhem Paşa Emine Nurefşan Dinç   100

Hacı Abdi Petricî Lejla Demiri   105

Harputlu Ishak Efendi M. Sait Özervarlı   110

Mustafa Şevket Ayşe İçöz   115

Ibrāhīm Faṣīḥ al-Ḥaydarī Mehmet Karabela   118

Namık Kemal Michelangelo Guida   122

Ahmed Şükrizâde Ali Haydar Serkan Ince   127

İbnü’r-Reşâd Ali Ferruh Serkan Ince   131

Sırrı Paşa Giridī Ayşe İçöz   135

Ahmet Mithat Efendi Scott Rank   138

Sava Pasha Ferhat Koca   154

Lewis Wallace Amina Nawaz   163

Abdullah Edib Bayramzâde Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   176

Bosnian discussions concerning hijra Dženita Karić   179

Halil Halid Refik Bürüngüz   186

Tevfikîzâde İsmail Tevfik Matthew Sharp   195

Ahmed Kemal İlkul Serkan Ince   201

Mahmud Esad ibn Emin Seydişehrî Serkan Ince   204

Hasan Sabri Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   225

ʿAbd al-Aḥad Dāwūd Betül Avcı   229

Celal Nuri İleri Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   237

Mehmed Esad Serkan Ince   246

Sırât-ı Müstakîm Serkan Ince   250

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Jāwīsh Selva Yildirim   257

Turkish State Archives Serkan Ince   2667

Hohannes Kara Krikorian Elif Tokay   273

Greater Syria and environs   287

Būlus ibn Ilyās Sarjoun Karam   289

The ‘Incident of the martyrs’ in Aleppo (1818) Feras Krimsti   295

Fatḥallāh al-Ṣāyigh Johann Buessow and Lisa Wolfgarten-Kolmorgen   307

Maksīmūs Maẓlūm Ronney el Gemayel   321

Buṭrus Karāma and other poets of the Khāliyya controversy Hilary Kilpatrick   330

The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo Feras Krimsti   337

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq Rana Issa   351

Nuʿmān al-Alūsī Mahmoud Nagah Khalaf   356

Rizqallāh Ḥassūn Souad Abouelrousse Slim   360

John Wortabet Carsten Walbiner   367

The massacre in Damascus, July 1860 Feras Krimsti   378

Kitāb yashtamil ʿalā ajwibat ahl al-kanīsa Carsten Walbiner   407

Nawfal Niʿmat Allāh Nawfal Caleb McCarthy   411

Rushayd al-Daḥdāḥ Carsten Walbiner   415

Jirjī Yannī Souad Abouelrousse Slim   421

Khrisṭūfūrus Jibāra Carsten Walbiner   428

Christian Arab prophecies on the doom of Islam, 16th-19th centuries Carsten Walbiner   448

Bāsīliyūs Khirbāwī Carsten Walbiner   456

Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Tannīr Ahmed Ragab Abdelhay   467

Luwīs Shaykhū  Rafaël Herzstein   475

Egypt, Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula   483

Yūsāb, bishop of Jirja and Akhmīm Joseph Faragalla   485

Jawād ibn Ibrāhīm Sābāṭ Nile Green   489

Al-Shawkānī Awad Al-Nahee   495   495

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Shaykh Ḥamad ibn Nāṣir Ᾱl Muʿammar Umar Ryad and Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour   500

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī Ibrahim Gemeah   505

Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī Daniel L. Newman   512

Muḥammad ʻAyyād al-Ṭanṭāwī Mohammed Sayed   522

Muḥammad al-Ṭayyibī Mohamed A. Moustafa   528

Muḥammad ibn ʿIllīsh Muhammad al-Marakeby   535

Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī Ahab Bdaiwi   540

Muḥammad al-Mahdī Ömer Koçyiğit   548

ʿAlī l-Baḥrānī Umar Ryad   555

Muḥammad Zakī l-Dīn Sanad Elsayed Z. Abuamer   559

Buṭrus Dinyāsiyūs Joseph Faragalla   563

Aḥmad Shafīq Pasha Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   566

Comboni Fathers and Comboni Missionary Sisters Jaco Beyers   571

Hasan Hüsnü Toyrânî Lejla Demiri   580

Muḥammad Ḥasan Faraḥāt Umar Ryad   585

Muḥammad Ḥabīb Wael Hegazy   587

Al-Tamīmī l-Darī Simon A. Wood and Abla Hasan   590

Yūsif ʿAṭiyya Deanna Ferree Womack   597

Yaʿqūb Nakhla Hiroko Miyokawa   604

Aḥmad Zakī Pasha Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   613

Ḥanna Maqār Joseph Faragalla   618

Muḥammad Bakhīt al-Muṭīʿī Junaid Quadri   622

Ṣubḥī Qūnyāwī Ossama A.S. Abdelgawwad and Mohamed A. Moustafa   628

Nīqūlā Ghabriyāl Simon A. Wood and Abla Hasan   636

Mikhāʾīl ʿAbd al-Sayyid Michael Ghattas   645

Muḥammad ʿAbduh Ammeke Kateman   651

Faraḥ Anṭūn Marco Demichelis   664

Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Nabhānī Amal Ghazal   670

ʿAlī Aḥmad al-Jirjāwī Ines Soussou   675

Muṣṭafā l-Ghalāyīnī Ali Mohamed   680

Iskandar Effendi ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Bājūrī Umar Ryad   685

Nūr al-Dīn al-Sālimī Valerie J. Hoffman   692

Temple Gairdner Michael T. Shelley   702

ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥusaynī Carsten Walbiner   734

Arthur Thomas Upson Serkan Ince   745

Cairo Study Centre Michael T. Shelley   760

Yūsuf al-Dijwī Mahmoud Ali Gomaa Afifi   768

Muḥammad Tawfīq Ṣidqī Umar Ryad   783

Nile Mission Press Michael T. Shelley and John Chesworth   795

Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā Umar Ryad   801

Aḥmad ʿAlī l-Malījī l-Kutubī Mariam M. Shehata and Umar Ryad   825

Muḥammad ʿAlī Mohamed A. Moustafa   832

Maghreb   837

al-Ghazzāl Nabil Matar   839

Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī Nabil Matar   844

Abū l-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī l-Tusūlī Mahammed Bouabdallah   853

Ferdinand Christian Ewald Carsten Walbiner   858

Emir Abdel Kader Tim Winter   867

Sulaymān al-Ḥarāʾirī Muhammad Almarakeby   875

Muḥammad al-Ḥashāyishī Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   880

Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Aṭfiyyash Valerie J. Hoffman   884

Ismaÿl Urbain Roland Laffitte and Naïma Lefkir-Laffitte   901

Māʾ al-ʿAynayn Arjan Post   913

Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī Mahammed Bouabdallah   919

Muḥammad Bayram V Abdullah Ibrahim Omran   925

Charles Lavigerie Diego Sarrió Cucarella   934

French officials in Algeria Kamel Chachoua, Alain Messaoudi and John Chesworth   959

Isabelle Eberhardt Renée Champion   978

Charles de Foucauld Barbara Bürkert-Engel   997

Contributors   1003

Index of Names   1015

Index of Titles   1031

About the Author

David Thomas FBA, PhD (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Emeritus Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. Among his most recent works are CMR vols 12-14 and 16 and 17 (Brill, 2009-21).



John Chesworth, PhD (2008) in Religious Studies, University of Birmingham, is Research Officer for Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 1500-1900 at the University of Birmingham. He has published on Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa and Europe, and co-edited The character of Christian-Muslim Encounter (Brill 2015) and CMR vols 6-14, 16 and 17 (Brill, 2014-21).