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Zusatztext "This work should contribute a great deal to removing 'tension' between Muslims and Christians. Highly recommended" Informationen zum Autor Kate Zebiri is Senior Lecturer of Arabic & Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is the author of Muslims And Christians Face To Face . Klappentext From the Crusades to the present day, the interrelationship between Islam and Christianity has been fraught with conflict, both theological and military. Yet events in the twentieth century, particularly the communications revolution, have meant that, after centuries of living in relative isolation from each other, Muslims and Christians find themselves participating in the same intellectual culture, and having to review their assumptions about each other. In this book. Kate Zebiri anaylses Muslin writings on Christianity and Christian writings on Islam to explore the issue central to Muslim-Christian relations. The literature surveyed is diverse - both popular and Zusammenfassung Zebiri analyses modern Muslim writings on Christianity and Christian writings on Islam to provide an overview of the more important contrasts and similarities between the two religions, and to shed light on some of the reasons for misunderstandings and failures in communication, past and present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Factors Influencing Muslim- Christian relations 15 2. Muslim Popular Literature on Christianity 44 3. Protestant Missionary Literature on Islam 94 4. The Study of Christianity by Muslim Intellectuals 137 5. Approaches to Islam by Christian Islamicists and Theologians 183
