By Sidney H. Griffith
Amid lots twenty-first-century speak of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in a few Western international locations over regulations towards minority Muslim communities--a historic truth has long past ignored: for greater than 400 years starting within the mid-seventh century, a few 50 percentage of the world's Christians lived and worshipped lower than Muslim rule. simply who have been the Christians within the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an?
The Church within the Shadow of the Mosque is the 1st book-length dialogue in English of the cultural and highbrow lifetime of such Christians indigenous to the Islamic international. Sidney Griffith deals an interesting evaluation in their preliminary reactions to the non secular demanding situations they confronted, the advance of a brand new mode of offering Christian doctrine as liturgical texts of their personal languages gave strategy to Arabic, the Christian function within the philosophical lifetime of early Baghdad, and the maturing of distinct Oriental Christian denominations during this context.
supplying a fuller knowing of the increase of Islam in its early years from the point of view of latest non-Muslims, this ebook reminds us that there's a lot to benefit from the works of people that heavily engaged Muslims of their personal global see you later ago.
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