@article{725746,
      recid = {725746},
      author = {Lovat, Terence, and Crotty, Robert B.,},
      title = {Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism Islam's  special role in restoring convivencia / [electronic  resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/725746},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15548-7},
}