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 collea...

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.