History of Christian-Muslim Relations

Hugh Goddard is reader in Islamic theology at the University of Nottingham and author of Christians and Muslims: From Double Standards to Mutual Understanding and Muslim Perceptions of Christianity.

Appropriately designed to give an introductory overview of the encounter of Christianity and Islam...He approaches the subject as a historian of religion with sensitivity to the civilizational character of the Christian-Muslim encounter—i.e. an encounter in which 'religious' aspects must be set in a wider discussion of social, economic, political, and religious factors.

• Part 1 Preface viiPart 2 Note on Transliteration and Dates viiiPart 3 Chronology ixPart 4 Map 1: The Christian and Muslim Worlds c. 830/215 51Part 5 Map 2: The Christian and Muslim Worlds Today 178–9Part 6 Introduction 1Part 7 The Christian Background to the Coming of Islam 5Chapter 8 Early Christian Thinking about Other Religions 5Chapter 9 The History of the Christian Church in the Middle East 11Part 10 The Islamic Impact 19Chapter 11 Muhammad's Contacts with Christians 19Chapter 12 The Qur'an's View of Christians 24Chapter 13 Precedents for Muslim Treatment of Christians 29Part 14 The First Age of Christian–Muslim Interactions (-c. 830/215) 34Chapter 15 Christain Reponses to the Coming of Islam 34Chapter 16 Muslim Treatment of Christians I 41Part 17 The Medieval Period I: Confrontation or Interaction in the East? 50Chapter 18 Contacts and Exchanges 50Chapter 19 Developing Mutual Perceptions 56Chapter 20 Muslim Treatment of Christians II 66Chapter 21 Conversion to Islam 68Part 22 The Medieval Period II: Confrontation or Interaction in the West? 79Chapter 23 Western Christian Reactions to the Coming of Islam 79Chapter 24 The Crusades 84Chapter 25 Alternative Perceptions of Islam 92Chapter 26 The Transmission of Knowledge from the Islamic World to the West 96Part 27 The Changing Balance of Power: Mission and Imperialism? 109Chapter 28 The Growth of European Power 109Chapter 29 The Establishment of Christian Missions 113Chapter 30 The Heyday of European Influence 123Chapter 31 Muslim Responses 127Part 32 New Thinking in the 19th/13th and 20th/14th Centuries 142Chapter 33 The Growth of Western Academic Study of Islam 142Chapter 34 Changing Christian Thinking about Islam 149Chapter 35 Changing Muslim Thinking about Christianity 158Part 36 Dialogue or Confrontation? 177Chapter 37 The Dialogue Movement 177Chapter 38 The Political Context 186Chapter 39 Fellow-Pilgrims? 188Part 40 Bibliography 199Part 41 Index 201