Product Description: The Indonesian Dutch Consortium on Muslim-Christian Relations brought together academics, intellectuals as well as social activists from both countries, Christian and Muslim alike. While what is published here is the academic output, the impact of the consortium has therefore been much broader...read more

Product Description: Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions. Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, the essays in this volume explore the devotional practices of each tradition and how these practices are taught and learned...read more

Product Description: This volume contains theoretical and empirical articles on tensions within and between religion and human rights. There are conflicts in the past histories of Christianity and Islam in regard to human rights, but also in contemporary history...read more

Product Description: Communicating the Word is a record of the 2008 Building Bridges seminar, an annual dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Featuring the insights of internationally known Christian and Muslim scholars, the essays collected here focus attention on key scriptural texts but also engage with both classical and contemporary Islamic and Christian thought...read more

Product Description: 'Cultural interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam'- such was the title of a combined research project of the Universities of Leiden and Groningen aimed at describing the various ways in which the Christian communities of the Middle East expressed their distinct cultural identity in Muslim societies...read more

Product Description: Throughout time, Muslim and Christian communities have shared geography, history, oceans, and traded goods and ideas. Both communities are "people of the book," and both claim prophecy as central to their traditions. Both communities want to know how scripture and sacred writings shape the world-view of the other...read more

Considers how Muslims and Christians understand prophecy, what their scriptures have in common and how they differ in describing the prophets, and what the places of Jesus and of Muhammad are in the two faiths.

Product Description: The chapters in this volume, which come from the Fourth Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium, cover aspects of Christian life in and around Baghdad in the early centuries of 'Abbasid rule. The authors explore both broad themes, such as the place of monasteries in Muslim cultural life, accusations of Islam as crypto-idolatry, and Muslim responses to Christian apologetic arguments, and also specific topics, such as a Nestorian's explanation of the Incarnation, a Jacobite's purpose in composing his guide to moral improvement, and the development of Christian legends about the caliph al-Ma'mun...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines the effects of the Crusades from a variety of perspectives.The Crusades examines how the Crusades affected peoples and terrains; agriculture, art, and archeology; military and urban architecture; literature and music; and the attitudes of the Christian West towards the Muslim East and vice versa...read more

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Proceedings of a conference discuss the implications of contact between the Islamic world and Eastern Christianity in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus (view table of contents)

Product Description: "The reader is led through the centuries, and through the varieties of regional diversity, to a serious appreciation of the richness and importance of the subject."--Sheila McDonough, Concordia University, Montreal"This volume far surpasses others of its kind in quality and breadth...read more

Product Description: During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic...read more