THE APOLOGY OF AL KINDY

WRITTEN AT THE COURT OF AL MĀMŪN
(Circa A.H. 215; A.D. 830)

IN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AGAINST ISLAM.

edited and commented by

Sir William Muir

[Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK), Second Edition, London, 1887]


{This online edition of the text preserves the page breaks and footnote numbers of Muir’s second edition published in 1887. The marginal headings found through the book refer to the page numbers in the Romanized Arabic edition used by Sir William Muir: Risalat `Abd Allah ibn Isma`il al-Hashimi. Edited by Anton Tien. Published by the Turkish Mission Aid Society, 1885, pp. 272.}


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page 1
Preface to the Present Edition 3
Preface to the First Edition 5
Essay on its Age and Authorship 13


Speech of Al Māmūn 29
Letter of Al Hāshimy the Moslem Advocate 39
REPLY OF AL KINDY 41
The Trinity 41
Life of Mahomet 44
Assassinations 46
Warlike Expeditions 48
Wives of Mahomet 51
Evidence of Prophecy 53
Conquest of Persia 55
Miracles 57
Apostacy of the Arabs 62
The Three Dispensations 66
The Coran: Materials and Mode of Collection    69
Solecisms in Coran, Matter and Style 79
Worldly Inducements 84
       
Name of Mahomet on the Great Throne    88
Preėminence of the Seed of Abraham 88
Ordinances of Islam 90
Prohibition of Swine's Flesh 91
Pilgrimage 92
Saracenic Crusade 95
Contradictory Passages 96
War as a Divine Remedy 101
Martyrs, Moslem and Christian 103
Temporal Inducements 107
Intercession of Mahomet 109
The Trinity defended 110
Adoration of the Cross 111
The Fāteha 112
CHRISTIANITY described 114
Old Testament Prophecies 114
Jewish Scriptures uncorrupted 114
Life of Christ 116
Ministry of the Apostles 119
Miracles no longer needed 120
Conclusion 122


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