Muslims and Others : : Relations in Context / / Jacques Waardenburg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Waardenburg, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 41
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 p.)

Jacques Waardenburg untersucht Beziehungen zwischen Muslimen und Angehörigen anderer Religionen. Nachdem sein Band "Islam" (2002 bei de Gruyter erschienen) verschiedene Aspekte des Islam aus der Sicht eines Außenstehenden beleuchtet hat, wechselt im zweiten Band die Perspektive. Waardenburg zeigt, wie Muslime Nicht-Muslime über viele Jahrhunderte religiösen Dialogs und religiöser Spannungen hinweg wahrgenommen haben - besonders das Christentum und die sog. westliche Welt, aber auch das Judentum und asiatische Religionen. Dabei befasst er sich insbesondere mit muslimischen Minderheiten in westlichen Ländern und mit interreligiösem Dialog, über den er als Teilnehmer zahlreicher Dialog-Foren Wissen aus erster Hand liefert. Nach 50-jähriger Forschung und persönlichem Engagement plädiert Waardenburg für gegenseitiges Verständnis und für eine Aussöhnung zwischen Islam und anderen Religionen, besonders dem Christentum. Das gilt sowohl auf internationaler als auch auf lokaler Ebene, wo "alte" und "neue", christliche und muslimische Europäer zusammenleben.

Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings. After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction -- Section 1: Three Monotheistic Religions -- Chapter 1. Christians, Muslims, Jews, and their -- Religions -- Chapter 2. Three Monotheistic Religions: Structure -- and Patterns of Meaning -- Section 2: Muslim Encounters with Other Religions -- in History -- Chapter 3. The Earliest Relations of Islam with -- other Religions -- Chapter 4. Cases of Interreligious Dialogue under -- Muslim Rule -- Section 3: Muslim Perceptions of Other -- Religions -- Chapter 5. Two Shining Lights: Medieval Islam and -- Christianity -- Chapter 6. World Religions Seen in Islamic -- Light -- Chapter 7. Twentieth Century Writings about Other -- Religions: A Classification -- Chapter 8. Some Observations on Muslim Studies of -- Religions -- Section 4: Muslims and the West, Muslims in the -- West -- Chapter 9. Some Muslim Reflections on the -- West -- Chapter 10. Europe and its Muslim Neighbors: -- Glimpses of Dialogue -- Chapter 11. Muslims and Their Islam in Europe: -- Initiatives and Responses -- Chapter 12. Diversity and Unity of Islam in Europe: -- Islamic Constructs -- Chapter 13. Muslims and Others in Europe: Cultural -- and Intercultural Contacts -- Section 5: Muslim-Christian Relations and Minority -- Problems -- Chapter 14. Muslim Minorities: Politics and -- Religion in the Balkans -- Chapter 15. Muslim-Christian Minority Problems in -- Europe and the Middle East -- Section 6: Muslims and Others in Processes of -- Change -- Chapter 16. Issues in Muslim-Christian -- Relations -- Chapter 17. Between Baghdad and Birmingham: -- Opportunities of Minorities -- Chapter 18. Muslims and Christians: Changing -- Identities -- Chapter 19. Muslims and Westerners: Changing -- Attitudes -- Backmatter