Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism [electronic resource] : Islam's special role in restoring convivencia / Terence Lovat, Robert Crotty
Lovat, Terence, author.; Crotty, Robert B., author.
2015
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Title Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism [electronic resource] : Islam's special role in restoring convivencia / Terence Lovat, Robert Crotty
Author Lovat, Terence, author.
ISBN 9783319155487 electronic book
3319155482 electronic book
9783319155470
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15548-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-15548-7 doi
Call Number BP171
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.28
Summary At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to the current hostility. This is because the common claims of both mainstream and radical Islam that Islam represents the high point of the Abrahamic tradition, and therefore a purification of Judaism and Christianity, have been largely ignored, misunderstood or blatantly rejected by these faiths and therefore by ?the West? in general. This rejection has effectively rendered Islam as the poor cousin, if not the illegitimate sibling, of the tradition. In turn, this has created long-term resentment and hostility within Islam as well as robbed the ?Judaeo-Christian West? of a rich, inter-faith understanding of the wider Abrahamic tradition. The book explores these claims through textual, historical and theological analyses, proposing that many of them stand up better to critical scrutiny than has been commonly acknowledged. It further proposes that seeing Islam in this way has potential to re-awaken its self-understanding as a leader of accord among the Abrahamic faiths, of the kind that characterized the era of Convivencia when, in medieval Spain, Islam constructed and contributed to advanced civilizations characterized by relatively harmonious co-existence between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The book focuses on the role that a more respected and self-confident Islam could play in forging enhanced inter-faith relations in a world that desperately needs them as it struggles to understand and deal with modern and particularly vicious forms of radical Islamism.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series SpringerBriefs in religious studies.
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Section A: The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) and a Theory of Religion
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Abrahamic Religions
Chapter 2: A Theory of Religion and Being Religious
Section B: The Sacred Story(ies) of the Abrahamic Religions from Three Vantage Points.- Chapter 3: The Story from the Vantage Point of Judaism
Chapter 4: The Story from the Vantage Point of Christianity
Chapter 5: The Story from the Vantage Point of Islam
Section C: Islamic and Islamist Scholarship and the Abrahamic (Ibrahimic) Tradition
Chapter 6: The Heart of the Ibrahimic Story in Islam
Chapter 7: The Increasing Cogency of Islamism
Section D: Exploring Convivencia and the Potential for Islamic Leadership
Chapter 8: The Historical Exemplar: La Convivencia
Chapter 9: Re-constructing Convivencia in the Twenty-first Century
Conclusion.

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