Muslims and Others: Relations in ContextWalter de Gruyter, 2003 - 519 pages Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings. After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Section 1 Three Monotheistic Religions | 37 |
Chapter 1 Christians Muslims Jews and their Religions | 39 |
Structure and Patterns of Meaning | 64 |
Section 2 Muslim Encounters with Other Religions in History | 85 |
Chapter 3 The Earliest Relations of Islam with other Religions | 87 |
Chapter 4 Cases of Interreligious Dialogue under Muslim Rule | 110 |
Section 3 Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions | 131 |
Islamic Constructs | 336 |
Cultural and Intercultural Contacts | 357 |
Section 5 MuslimChristian Relations and Minority Problems | 379 |
Politics and Religion in the Balkans | 381 |
Chapter 15 MuslimChristian Minority Problems in Europe and the Middle East | 404 |
Chapter 16 Issues in MuslimChristian Relations | 424 |
Opportunities of Minorities | 452 |
Section 6 Muslims and Others in Processes of Change | 477 |
Medieval Islam and Christianity | 133 |
Chapter 6 World Religions Seen in Islamic Light | 162 |
A Classification | 199 |
Chapter 8 Some Observations on Muslim Studies of Religions | 218 |
Section 4 Muslims and the West Muslims in the West | 239 |
Chapter 9 Some Muslim Reflections on the West | 241 |
Glimpses of Dialogue | 273 |
Initiatives and Responses | 308 |
Changing Identities | 479 |
Changing Attitudes | 488 |
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