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 ofletters and of culture.

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Introduction……Page 11
Contributors……Page 13
I – Muslim Studies of Other Religions……Page 17
1 – The Early Period, 610-650……Page 19
2 – The Medieval Period, 650-1500……Page 34
3 – The Modern Period, 1500-1950……Page 86
4 – The Contemporary Period, 1950-1995……Page 101
II – Medieval Times……Page 119
5 – Christians in the Qur’an and Tafsr……Page 121
6 – Arab Islamic Perceptions of Byzantine Religion and Culture……Page 138
7 – Some Arab-Muslim Perceptions of Religion and Medieval Culture in Sicily……Page 152
8 – Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Jewish Scriptures……Page 159
9 – Heresiography of the Jews in Mamluk Times……Page 176
10 – Perceptions of Other Religions in Sufism……Page 197
11 – Philosophical Schools as Viewed by Some Medieval Muslim Authors……Page 211
12 – Zoroastrianism as Viewed in Medieval Islamic Sources……Page 218
13 – Representations of Social Intercourse between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Some Medieval Adab Works……Page 229
III – Modern Times……Page 241
14 – Christianity as Described by Persian Muslims……Page 243
15 – Arabic Muslim Writings on Contemporary Religions Other Than Islam……Page 256
16 – The Muslims of South Africa (1857-1947)……Page 266
17 – Muslim Views of Hindus since 1950……Page 279
18 – The Influence of Higher Bible Criticism of Muslim Apologetics in the Nineteenth Century……Page 286
19 – The Pancasila Ideology and an Indonesian Muslim Theology of Religions……Page 296
20 – The Debate on Muslim-Christian Dialogue as Reflected in Muslim Periodicals in arabic (1970-1991)……Page 313
Selected Bibliography……Page 325
General Index……Page 357