The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter
Title | The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 642 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004297219 |
The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. Over 30 essays pay tribute to this scholar by engaging topics within his own academic fields.
Muslim-Christian Encounters (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Muslim-Christian Encounters (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | William Montgomery Watt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2013-12-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317820436 |
First published in 1991, this title explores the myths and misperceptions that have underpinned Muslim-Christian relations throughout history, and which endure to the current day. William Montgomery Watt describes how the myths originated and developed, and argues that both Muslims and Christians need to have a more accurate knowledge and positive appreciation of the other religion. Chapters discuss the Qur’anic perception of Christianity, attitudes to Greek philosophy and the relationship between Islam and Christianity in medieval Europe. Written by one of the leading authorities on Islam in the West, Muslim-Christian Encounters remains a relevant and vivid study and will be of particular value to students of Islam, religious history and sociology.
The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
Title | The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam PDF eBook |
Author | David Thomas |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047408829 |
The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islamic conquest and its subsequent impact on Byzantine society and history.
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
Title | Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin F. Soares |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
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This engaging collection of essays offers new insights into the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa in the past and closer to the present.
When Christians First Met Muslims
Title | When Christians First Met Muslims PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Philip Penn |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2015-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520284933 |
The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and eastern Turkey, these Syriac Christians were under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present. They wrote the earliest and most extensive accounts of Islam and described a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic. Through its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical material, When Christians First Met Muslims allows scholars, students, and the general public to explore the earliest interactions of what eventually became the world's two largest religions, shedding new light on Islamic history and Christian-Muslim relations.
Muslim-Christian Encounters
Title | Muslim-Christian Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Siddiqui |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | 9781138937918 |
While the subject of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian interaction is still not a traditional or systematic discipline, interest in the encounter of these two religions has grown considerably over the last decade. Historians, including historians of Islam and Christianity have always been interested in the civilizational meeting of the two religions, in conflict or in times of peace. This includes aspects of post-colonial studies, which incorporate cultural, literary and political writings which consider the intellectual and social ruptures in so much of the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theologians however have only recently begin to appreciate the amount of material which illustrates the extent to which Christians and Muslims wrote about one another's faith and spoke of each other in a variety of contexts in both polemical and eirenic terms. These resources serve to enrich the understanding of one's own faith and the changing historical relationship with the other. Today, Muslim-Christian is often understood as Islam/West where the Christianity and secularism are either conflated or Christianity subsumed within the larger cultural framework of the west. Either way, Islam is a foreign presence and its points of reference not easily assimilated in the narrative of a Judaeo-Christian West. Nevertheless this has created an interesting intellectual and scholarly dynamic in a wide range of disciplines. This includes ethics, politics, gender studies and the emergence of an interfaith' literature which is increasingly used in scholarly as well as grass roots settings. The collection will comprise around sixty pre-published journal articles and some book chapters. Each volume will contain around 15 articles/chapters. The articles will be secondary sources analysing the works of individual Christian and Muslim scholars, so will not be extracts of primary material thought it is hoped that the majority will contain some primary material. Volume One will contain an Introduction to the whole collection. The volumes will provide a unique and rich reflection of Muslim-Christian encounter. This work will introduce the scholar and the student to the variety of approaches people of faith/no faith have taken to thinking about the two religions. The volumes will cover doctrine, interfaith practice as theory and lived realities and philosophical and literary themes and approaches.
A History of Christian-Muslim Relations
Title | A History of Christian-Muslim Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Goddard |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | 1566633400 |
Hugh Goddard investigates the history of the relationships between Christians and Muslims over the centuries.