Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter / / edited by Douglas Pratt, Jon Hoover, John Davies, John Chesworth.

• Superior document: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations ; 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Pratt, Douglas.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas , Professor of Christianity and Islam, and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations, at the University of Birmingham, UK. The Editors have put together a collection of over 30 contributions from colleagues of Professor Thomas that commences with a biographical sketch and representative tribute provided by a former doctoral student, and comprises a series of wide-ranging academic papers arranged to broadly reflect three dimensions of David Thomas’ academic and professional work – studies in and of Islam; Christian-Muslim relations; the Church and interreligious engagement. These are set in the context of a focussed theme – the character of Christian-Muslim encounters – and cast within a broad chronological framework. Contributors, excluding the editors, are: Clare Amos, John Azumah, Mark Beaumont, David Cheetham, Rifaat Ebied, Stanisław Grodź SVD, Alan Guenther, Damian Howard SJ, Michael Ipgrave, Muammer İskenderoğlu, Risto Jukko, Alex Mallett, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Lucinda Mosher, Gordon Nickel, Jørgen Nielsen, Claire Norton, Emilio Platti, Luis Bernabé Pons, Peniel Rajkumar, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Andrew Sharp, Sigvard von Sicard, Richard Sudworth, Mark Swanson, Charles Tieszen, John Tolan, Davide Tacchini, Herman Teule, Albert Walters.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Douglas Pratt , Jon Hoover , John Davies and John Chesworth -- General Introduction / Douglas Pratt , Jon Hoover , John Davies and John Chesworth -- David Thomas: The Hearing of Two Vocations / John Davies -- Professor David Thomas / Albert Sundararaj Walters -- Facing the Last Day through Two Narrative Apocalyptic Figures in the Coptic-Arabic ‘Apocalypse of Pseudo-Athanasius’ / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala -- The Holy Spirit in Early Christian Dialogue with Muslims / Mark Beaumont -- Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī, Disciples and Masters: On Questions of Religious Philosophy / Emilio Platti -- The Theme of Language in Christian-Muslim Discussions in the ʿAbbāsid Period: Some Christian Views / Herman Teule -- A Neglected Piece of Evidence for Early Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Crusader Presence in the Levant: The ‘Jihad Chapter’ from Tuḥfat al-mulūk / Alex Mallett -- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ibn ʿArabī on the Ways to Knowledge of God: Unveiling or Reflection and Reasoning? / Muammer İskenderoğlu -- “Can You Find Anything Praiseworthy in My Religion?” Religious Aversion and Admiration in Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations / Charles L. Tieszen -- The First Imposition of a Badge on European Jews: The English Royal Mandate of 1218 / John Tolan -- An Arabic Version of the Treatise on the Origin and History of the Thirty Pieces of Silver which Judas Received from the Jews / Rifaat Ebied -- Debating According to the Rules: A Conversation about the Crucifixion in al-Ḥāwī by al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd / Mark N. Swanson -- Islamic Anti-Christian Polemics in 16th Century Spain: The Lead Books of Granada and the Gospel of Barnabas. Beyond the Limits of taḥrīf / Luis F. Bernabé Pons -- Islam: An (Almost) Redundant Element in the Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman Encounters between the 16th and 17th Centuries? / Stanisław Grodź -- (In)tolerant Ottomans: Polemic, Perspective and the Reading of Primary Sources / Claire Norton -- The Ḥadīth in Christian-Muslim Dialogue in 19th Century India / Alan M. Guenther -- Muslim Responses to Missionary Literature in Egypt in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Umar Ryad -- Three Pioneering Malay Works of Quranic Exegesis: A Comparative Study / Peter G. Riddell -- Christian-Muslim Engagement in Contemporary India: Minority Irruptions of Majoritarian Faultlines / Peniel J. Rufus Rajkumar -- Scholarly Reception of Alphonse Mingana’s “The Transmission of the Ḳurʾān:” A Centenary Perspective / Gordon Nickel -- The Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting Reconciliation in Sudan / Sigvard von Sicard -- Patterns of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Azumah -- Italian Islam: Imam and Mosque Today / Davide Tacchini -- The Current Situation of Christian-Muslim Relations: Emerging Challenges, Signs of Hope / Jørgen S. Nielsen -- The Future of the Christian-Muslim Past: Reflecting with Charles Taylor on Interreligious Relations / Damian Howard -- Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue: Towards a More Interpersonal and Spiritual Engagement / Risto Jukko -- Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and the Environment: The Case for a New Sacred Science / Andrew M. Sharp.