@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7rpv5.11, ISBN = {9780691146287}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rpv5.11}, abstract = {While the Christian theologians who wrote in Arabic in the early Islamic period, whose works have been our concern up to this point, were for the most part associated with monasteries and other ecclesiastical institutions, many of them, along with other Christian intellectuals in the caliphate prior to the time of the Crusades, also played a role in the burgeoning intellectual life in the caliph’s own capital city of Baghdad and beyond. Some were physicians, some were philosophers, and some were logicians, mathematicians, copyists, or translators. Some were also Christian apologists and theologians, as we have seen. All of them}, bookauthor = {Sidney H. Griffith}, booktitle = {The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam}, pages = {106--128}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN BAGHDAD AND BEYOND: A MAJOR PARTNER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL CULTURE}, year = {2008} }