Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions: A Historical Survey

Jacques Waardenburg9780195104721, 0-19-510472-2

Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions, cultures, and civilizations, including not only different forms of Christianity and Judaism inside and outside the Middle East, Zoroastrianism and Manicheism, Hinduism and even Buddhism, but also tribal religions in West and East Africa, in South Russia and in Central Asia, including Tibet. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists, travelers and historians, and men of letters and of culture.

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Table of contents :
EEn……Page 1
Preface……Page 8
Contents……Page 10
Introduction……Page 12
Contributors……Page 14
I – Muslim Studies of Other Religions……Page 18
1 – The Early Period, 610-650……Page 20
2 – The Medieval Period, 650-1500……Page 35
3 – The Modern Period, 1500-1950……Page 87
4 – The Contemporary Period, 1950-1995……Page 102
II – Medieval Times……Page 120
5 – Christians in the Qur’an and Tafsr……Page 122
6 – Arab Islamic Perceptions of Byzantine Religion and Culture……Page 139
7 – Some Arab-Muslim Perceptions of Religion and Medieval Culture in Sicily……Page 153
8 – Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures……Page 160
9 – Heresiography of the Jews in Mamluk Times……Page 177
10 – Perceptions of Other Religions in Sufism……Page 198
11 – Philosophical Schools as Viewed by Some Medieval Muslim Authors……Page 212
12 – Zoroastrianism as Viewed in Medieval Islamic Sources……Page 219
13 – Representations of Social Intercourse between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Some Medieval Adab Works……Page 230
III – Modern Times……Page 242
14 – Christianity as Described by Persian Muslims……Page 244
15 – Arabic Muslim Writings on Contemporary Religions Other Than Islam……Page 257
16 – The Muslims of South Africa (1857-1947)……Page 267
17 – Muslim Views of Hindus since 1950……Page 280
18 – The Influence of Higher Bible Criticism of Muslim Apologetics in the Nineteenth Century……Page 287
19 – The Pancasila Ideology and an Indonesian Muslim Theology of Religions……Page 297
20 – The Debate on Muslim-Christian Dialogue as Reflected in Muslim Periodicals in arabic (1970-1991)……Page 314
Selected Bibliography……Page 326
General Index……Page 358