Outline: In recent decades, a "certainty trap" has sprung up within both Islam and Christianity, resulting in a world struggling with the fallout from extremist and violent interpretations of what "the word of God" might mean. The Certainty Trap asks whether Christians and Muslims - equally - can any longer afford the luxury of fundamentalism. Musk looks at the phenomenon of fundamentalism in C…
Outline: In recent years 'Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading revisionist thinkers of the Moslem world. Supporters and critics alike have called him the Martin Luther of Islam - a man whose ideas on religion and democracy could bridge the chasm between Moslem societies and the rest of the world. Soroush and his contemporaries in other Moslem countries are shaping what may becom…
Outline: The authors of these essays examine the ways in which Muslims and Christians worldwide have encountered one another over 1,400 years and the ways in which they are engaged today, enlightening current interpolitical, intersocial, and intereconomic relationships. Covering geographical, historical, and methodological topics that range from medieval scripture to contemporary theological r…
Outline: Despite his alleged capture in Pakistan in late 2005, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, a Syrian originally known as Mustafa Sethmarian Nassar, remains a potent political and ideological figure. One of the foremost theoreticians of the global jihadist movement, al-Suri trained a generation of young jihadis at al-Qaida's Afghan camps and helped to establish the organization's vast European networks.…
Outline: Crescent and Dove delves into the intellectual heritage of Islam to discuss historical examples of addressing conflict of Islam and exploring the practical challenges of contemporary peacemaking in Arab countries, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia. These essays address both theory and practice, presenting possibilities for nonviolent interventions, peacemaking, the implementation o…
Outline: What every Christian should know about Islam's sacred text? Who does the Qur'an teach Jesus is? What does the Qur'an say about salvation? How does the Qur'an describe Christians? A Christian Guide to the Qur'an will prepare Christians to understand the central messages of the Qur'an in simple terms, and illustrates how knowledge of Islam's sacred text can provide bridges to religious u…
Outline: Whether it's terrorists in the Middle East who claim inspiration from Islam and express their hatred for the West, or the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, or the violence done by the religious extremists in the United States, it seems religion too often leads to lethal results. Charles Kimball, the author of When Religion Becomes Evil, builds on his bestselling book …
Outline: Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with Islamic ideals. While the movement declined after the 1930s, replaced by secular projects such as nationalism …
Outline: Explaining The Trinity to Muslims. This book is a culturally relevant presentation of the truth of the Trinity to the Muslim mindset. Originally it was issued through a Turkish secular publishing house and had a countrywide repercussion, even in Islamic circles. It is a useful presentation for both Muslim and Christian readers, providing fundamental keys for understanding and explainin…
Outline: 'I know that Christ has changed my life and I have found in him the peace I could not find elsewhere.' From Indonesia, Pakistan and Zanzibar from wealthy and from humble origins from devout, zealous Muslim families and from nominally Islamic homes. 15 true stories of people finding forgiveness, release and new life in Jesus Christ.
Outline: Recent events in London, Madrid, and elsewhere all dramatically point to the growing presence of militant Islam in the West. In this timely and incisive analysis, Olivier Roy argues that the revival of Islam among Muslim populations over the last twenty years has been incorrectly perceived as a backlash against Westernization. Islam fundamentalism is not a single-note reaction against…
Outline: Millions of Muslims and Christians are neighbors and worship the same God. Yet they seldom witness to each other. In this book a Muslim and a Christian attempt to witness and listen. The issues they deal with are profound. The authors open up the basic questions of the human situation and confront similarities and differences in the Muslim and Christian responses. In recent years Musli…
Outline: In a time of increased yet mainly critical interest in Islam this book which was written by one of the world's leading scholars of Islamic culture, addresses interested Western readers as well as Muslims who have received a Western education. While the book is an attempt to give contemporary answer to the critics of Islam, it is also firmly grounded in the Muslim tradition and it seeks…
Outline: Encountering the World of Islam guides you on a journey into the lives of Muslims around the world and in your neighborhood. Through this comprehensive collection, you will learn about Muhammad and the history of Islam, gain insight into today's conflicts, and dispel fears and myths. You will also discover the frustrations and desires of Muslims and learn how to pray for and befriend t…
Outline: Millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America in the last fifty years. Their arrival has ignited fierce public debates on both series of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians best respond to this situation? In this book theologians and ethicist Matthew Kaemingk offers a thought-prov…
Outline: From New York Times bestselling author Nabeel Qureshi comes this personal, challenging, and respectful answer to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism. The mass shooting in San Bernardino was the most lethal terror attack on American soil since 9/11, and it came on the heels of a coordinated assault on Paris. There is no question that innocents h…
Outline: In this book, now expanded with bonus content, the author describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way. Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home, the author shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence that Jesus rose from t…
Outline: Muslims have often heard that Christians worship three gods, or that the Injil, the Christian Scripture, has been corrupted. How can Christians explain their faith in a way that Muslims can understand? In his work with Muslims in central London, the author discovered that many are quite open to talking about matters of faith. In this thoughtful and respectful book, the author explo…
Outline: Daily political events and the steady inevitability of globalism require that informed students and citizens learn something about religious traditions foreign to their own. These handy guidebooks are essential resources for those who want clear and concise explanations of common terms and unfamiliar concepts of major world religions.
Outline: This book gives an overview of the history, beliefs, and practices of Islam and explains some of the sources of tension between the Middle East and the West. In this lively and readable book, the author points out the common roots and shared values of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and assists Christians in identifying the connections between all three of the great monotheistic rel…
Outline: What would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would they learn? This is the intriguing question the author seeks to answer in these imaginative conversations on issues ranging from prayer and worship to evolution and abortion, from war and politics to the nature of spiritual struggle and spiritual s…
Outline: Yale University religion scholar the author - widely known for the much-publicized course on faith and globalization he coteaches with Tony Blair - places this question at the root of the twenty-first century's most sensitive, and critical, geopolitical concerns. The author reveals how the prevalent belief that these traditions worship different gods is directly linked to increased h…
Outline: This book is gripping, authoritative account of the epic battle between modernity and militant Islam that is reshaping the Middle East. The author, a reporter who has covered the Middle East for twenty years, takes us inside the militant Islamic movements in ten countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Algeria, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Iran. She shows that just as ther…
Though translated from a French version (L'Iran des origines a l'Islam, Paris, I95 i), the original idea for such a book was implanted in the author's mind by Professor Mallowan. As the latter points out in his foreword, M. Ghirshman's incomparable knowledge of the land and people of Iran and his intimate association with most of the major excavations carried out in that country for the past th…