Product Description: This book records the 781 A.D. dialogue between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and Timothy I, the first Nestorian Patriarch in Baghdad, a city which, at the time, had become the seat of Muslim power. This volume is a slightly revised version of The Caliph al-Mahdi and the Patriarch Timothy I: An 8th Century Interreligious Dialogue...read more

Product Description: Verse 104 from the third qur’anic chapter (surah) with its interpretation by two of the most influential Islamic thinkers of modern times, namely Muhammad ‘Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida, are taken as one representative example of the understanding of al-da‘wah in modern Islam...read more