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the Paraclete’s sayings in the Johannine Gospel,^23 individual passages of
elucidations of Deuteronomy 33:2,^24 Psalm 45:2–5,^25 and sections of the
summary of the first main section of the Hidāyat al-ḥayārā.^26 Except for
the information on the councils following the Ephesinum of 431 A. D.,
the historical overview of the genesis of Christianity until 691–692 A. D.
that is contained in the Hidāyat al-ḥayārā does not seem to take recourse
to the universal chronicle Naẓm al-jawhar^27 (The String of Pearls) of
the Melkite patriarch of Alexandria Saʿīd b. al-Baṭrīq (d. 328/940),^28 bet-
23 Ibid., pp. 323–341. The section received by Ibn al-Qayyim is found in Ibn
Taymiyya, Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm: al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ li-man baddala dīn
al-masīḥ, edited by ʿAlī al-Sayyid Ṣubḥ al-Madanī, Cairo 1383/1964, vol. 4,
pp. 6–19.
24 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Hidāyat al-ḥayārā, pp. 345–347. See the passages in
Ibn Taymiyya, al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ, vol. 3, pp. 300–302.
25 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Hidāyat al-ḥayārā, p. 353. See Ibn Taymiyya,
al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ, vol. 3, pp. 318–319.
26 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Hidāyat al-ḥayārā, p. 574. See Ibn Taymiyya, al-Jawāb
al-ṣaḥīḥ, vol. 2, p. 360. On Ibn al-Qayyim’s borrowings from al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ,
see Hoover, The Apologetic and Pastoral, pp. 486–487, 485, n. 24.
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Patriarchae Alexandrini Annales, edited by Louis Cheikho, Bernard Carra de
Vaux, Habib Zayyat, Louvain 1954.
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