The Jawāb al-qāḍī Abū l-Walīd al-Bājī ilā risālat rāhib Faransā ilā al-Muslimīn ('Reply of the Qāḍī Abū l-Walīd al-Bājī to the Letter of the Monk of France to the Muslims') is a correspondence in Arabic between an anonymous Christian monk from France and the Muslim scholar Abū l-Walīd al-Bājī of Spain. The monk's letter is addressed to al-Muqtadir, the king of Zaragoza (r. 1049–1081), inviting him to convert to Christianity. The king commissioned al-Bājī to write a response rejecting the overture. One letter from each correspondent survives in a single 14th-century manuscript, although there was apparently also an earlier exchange of letters.[1]
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