Abul-Qasim Publishing House, 2003. — 228 p. Written by famed South African scholar and author, Ahmed Deedat, the book The Choice Vol.1 is the first of two volumes of his most popular series of booklets on Islam and Christianity. Volume one deals with his booklets, What the Bible Says about Muhammad and Muhammad: The Natural Successor to Christ. This is truly a unique set of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 198 p. Medieval Miscegenation: Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature. Prester John, Christian Enclosure, and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth-Century West Mapping the Muslims: Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 225 p. The relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds has been a long and tortuous one. Over the course of the centuries the balance of power has swung in pendulum fashion — at times the initiative seems to have lain with the Muslim community, with the Christian world simply being compelled to react to developments outside itself,...
Routledge, 1995. — 214 p. Hugh Goddard provides a cogent analysis to the problems inherent in Christian-Muslim understanding. He begins by recognizing the great level of ignorance that exists between these religious communities and the subjective standards they apply to each other. Both Christians and Muslims criticize each other through a flawed and narrow lens that distorts...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 215 p. This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past, and discusses what might need to be done to improve Muslim-Christian relations in the region in the present and future. Since...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 338 p. The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that...
Pew Research Center, 2010. — 331 p. Executive Summary Religious Affiliation Commitment to Christianity and Islam Traditional African Religious Beliefs and Practices Interreligious Harmony and Tensions Religion and Society Religious Demography Survey Methodology
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. — 944 p. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1 (CMR1) is the first part of a general history of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other...
Longman, 1979. — 356 p. Most of Christian history is written from a Western vantage point. I never realized how true this was until I read this book. While Churches in the East get some mention in history books, I know of no other work that details as intricately as this one just how far and wide it spread East of Palestine. It is an invaluable reference work. It touches on the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 306 p. This monograph uses a medieval Arabic chronicle, The Chronicle of Seert, as a window into the Christian history of Iraq. The Chronicle describes events that are unknown from other sources, but it is most useful for what it tells us about the changes agendas of those who wrote history and their audiences in the period c.400-800. By...
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