The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of IslamAmid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an? |
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People of the Gospel People of the Book Christians and Christianity in the World of Islam | 6 |
Apocalypse and the Arabs The First Christian Responses to the Challenge of Islam | 23 |
Christian Theology in Arabic A New Development in Church Life | 45 |
The Shape of Christian Theology in Arabic The Genres and Strategies of Christian Discourse in the World of Islam | 75 |
Christian Philosophy in Baghdad and Beyond A Major Partner in the Development of Classical Islamic Intellectual Culture | 106 |
What Has Baghdad to Do with Constantinople or Rome? Oriental Christian SelfDefinition in the World of Islam | 129 |
Between the Crescent and the Cross Convivencia the Clash of Theologies and Interreligious Dialogue | 156 |
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