The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

For the first time in oriental studies in Russia, the author explores the early Islamic tradition of polemics against Jews and Christians. On the example of Quranic, hadith’ and tafsir’ texts, the author researches the genesis and development of Islamic apologetics in the first two centuries of Islam. The author also recovers the history of reception of biblical text in early Islamic medieval sources, by mentions attributed to Ibn Abbas, Ka’ab al-Aḥbār, Wahb b. Munabbih and Muqatil b. Sulayman.