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Prayer

Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by David Marshall, Lucinda Mosher, Rowan Williams, Michael Plekon, Reza Shah-Kazemi, MM Dheen Mohamed, Philip Sheldrake, Caner Dagli, Daniel A. Madigan0, Susan Eastman1, Rkia E. Cornell2, Philip Seddon3, Asma Afsaruddin4, Lucy Gardner5, Ibrahim Mogra6, Timothy Wright7, Timothy Gianotti8 ...

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

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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.
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Communicating the Word

Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam

by David Marshall, Seyed Amir Akrami, Daniel A. Madigan, Ellen F. Davis, Osman Bakar, John P. Langan, Asma Afsaruddin, Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Lamin Sanneh, John Azumah0, Abdullah Saeed1, Susan Eastman2, Michael Ipgrave3, Reza Shah-Kazemi4, Rowan Williams5 ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Monotheism and Its Complexities

Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by Richard Bauckham, Maria Dakake, Asma Afsaruddin, Martin Nguyen, Christoph Schwobel, Sajjad Rizvi, Janet Soskice, Sidney Griffith ...

Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that ... Read more

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Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that
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Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny

Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by David Marshall, Lucinda Mosher, Rowan Williams, N.T. Wright, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Mona Siddiqui, Jane D. McAuliffe, Asma Afsaruddin, Gavin D'Costa0, Geoffrey Rowell1, Feras Hamza2, Harriet Harris3, Recep Şentürk4, Sajjad Rizvi5, Miroslav Volf6, Richard Burridge7, Muhammad Abdel Haleem8, Timothy J. Winter9, Dennis McAuliffe0, Musharraf Hussain1, Michael Ipgrave2 ...

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a record of the 2012 Building Bridges seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, convened by Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qurān—and the Christian and Islamic theological traditions—have to say about death, resurrection, and human destiny. ... Read more

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Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a record of the 2012 Building Bridges seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, convened by Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qurān—and the Christian and Islamic theological traditions—have to say about death, resurrection, and human destiny.
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Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Christian and Muslim Perspectives

by Lucinda Mosher, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Christoph Schwobel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Khalil, Philip Sheldrake, Asma Afsaruddin0 ...

Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar.Thoughtful and provocative, the book begins with the complete texts of the opening lectures by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Jonathan A. C. Brown and contains essays by Christoph Schwöbel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Hassan ... Read more

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Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar.Thoughtful and provocative, the book begins with the complete texts of the opening lectures by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Jonathan A. C. Brown and contains essays by Christoph Schwöbel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Hassan
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Contemporary Issues in Islam

by Asma Afsaruddin ...

Series series The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
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Islam and the Drive to Global Justice

Principles of Justice Beyond Dominant Ethnic and Religious Communities

by Louay M. Safi, Khairudin Aljunied, Armando Salvatore, Farid Senzai, Abdulkader Tayob, Mohammed Abu-Nemir, Asma Afsaruddin, Mustafa Akyol, Mohammed Hashas ...

Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
Islam and the Drive to Global Justice: Principles of Justice Beyond Dominant Ethnic and Religious Communities contributes to the current debate over Islam in a globalizing world by drawing on the contemporary and historical justice discourse within the Islamic traditions, and by examining policies and practices of global powers towards Muslim populations in the Global South. The discussions aim at ... Read more

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Islam and the Drive to Global Justice: Principles of Justice Beyond Dominant Ethnic and Religious Communities contributes to the current debate over Islam in a globalizing world by drawing on the contemporary and historical justice discourse within the Islamic traditions, and by examining policies and practices of global powers towards Muslim populations in the Global South. The discussions aim at
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Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Asma Afsaruddin ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the ... Read more

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The word "jihad" is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the
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Toleration in Comparative Perspective

by Purushottama Bilimoria, Benjamin Schonthal, Koichiro Matsuda, Vicki A. Spencer, Anne Mocko, Kam-por Yu, Takashi Shogimen, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Xiaogan Liu, Scott L. Pratt0, Ken Tsutsumibayashi1, Karen Barkey2, Asma Afsaruddin3 ...

Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political discourse and contemporary political theory that toleration is a uniquely Western virtue. Toleration in modern Western philosophy is understood as principled noninterference in the practices and beliefs of ... Read more

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Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political discourse and contemporary political theory that toleration is a uniquely Western virtue. Toleration in modern Western philosophy is understood as principled noninterference in the practices and beliefs of
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Islamic Democratic Discourse

Theory, Debates, and Philosophical Perspectives

by Tarek Ramadan, Tamara Sonn, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar, Ozlem Denli, Mahgoub El-tigani Mahmoud, Carolyn Fleuhr, Ali Paya, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Marc Lynch, Abdelwahab El-Affendi ...

Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
There is a growing consensus among experts and the educated public alike that democratization will reduce the many problems of the Muslim world. The question that remains is how Islam should be incorporated into the public sphere. Islamic Democratic Discourse is in itself a dialogue that explores the multi-faceted relationship between Islam and democracy. Each chapter, by a preeminent scholar of ... Read more

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There is a growing consensus among experts and the educated public alike that democratization will reduce the many problems of the Muslim world. The question that remains is how Islam should be incorporated into the public sphere. Islamic Democratic Discourse is in itself a dialogue that explores the multi-faceted relationship between Islam and democracy. Each chapter, by a preeminent scholar of
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The First Muslims

History and Memory

by Asma Afsaruddin ...

A fresh look at the origins and development of Islam, this is a fascinating reconstruction of the era of the first three generations of Muslims. Using a wealth of classical Arabic sources, it chronicles the lives of the Prophet Muhammad, his Companions, and the subsequent two generations of Muslims, together known as the "the Pious Forebears". Examining the adoption in contemporary times of these ... Read more

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A fresh look at the origins and development of Islam, this is a fascinating reconstruction of the era of the first three generations of Muslims. Using a wealth of classical Arabic sources, it chronicles the lives of the Prophet Muhammad, his Companions, and the subsequent two generations of Muslims, together known as the "the Pious Forebears". Examining the adoption in contemporary times of these
... Read more
Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians

by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Osman Bakar, Steve Brown, Karim Douglas Crow, Alvin C. Dueck, Rabia Terri Harris, Riffat Hassan, Jimmy Jones, S Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Josh P. Morgan, Abdul Rashied Omar, Muhammed Shafiq, Wilbert R. Shenk, J Dudley Woodberry, Evelyne A.Reisacher, Kevin Reimer, David L. Johnston, Glen Stassen, Asma Afsaruddin ...

This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within ... Read more

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This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within
... Read more

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