Corrie Block - The Qur’an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Historical and Modern Interpretations

Offering an analysis of ChristianMuslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur'an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart, and amplifies the voice of the Qur'an itself.

Finding that there is tremendous ecumenical ground between Christianity and Islam in the voices of their own scholars, this book ranges from a period of declining ecumenism during the first three centuries of Islam, to a period of resurging ecumenism during the most recent century until now. Among the ecumenical voices in the ChristianMuslim dialogue, this book points out that the Qur'an itself is possibly the strongest of those voices. These findings are cause for, and evidence of, hope for the ChristianMuslim relationship: that although agreement may never be reached, dialogue has led at times to very real mutual understanding and appreciation of the religious other.

Providing a tool for those pursuing understanding and mutual appreciation between the Islamic and Christian faiths, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Islam, the Qur'an, and the history of ChristianMuslim relations.

C. Jonn Block is an intercultural management consultant. He has spent several years in inter-faith dialogue and research on the influence of culture and history on leadership style and corporate governance, and has written for diverse publications such as Business Islamica and the Journal of Islamic Studies.

Culture and civilization in the Middle East

General editor: Ian Richard Netton

Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

This series studies the Middle East through the twin foci of its diverse cultures and civilizations. Comprising original monographs as well as scholarly surveys, it covers topics in the fields of Middle Eastern literature, archaeology, law, history, philosophy, science, folklore, art, architecture and language. While there is a plurality of views, the series presents serious scholarship in a lucid and stimulating fashion.

Previously published by Curzon

The Origins of Islamic Law
The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal
Yasin Dutton

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo
The history of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection
Stefan Reif

The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism
Hadith as discourse between Qum and Baghdad
Andrew J. Newman

Qur'an Translation
Discourse, texture and exegesis
Hussein Abdul-Raof

Christians in Al-Andalus 7111000
Ann Rosemary Christys

Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates
Sayyid Hamid Hurriez

The Formation of Hanbalism
Piety into power
Nimrod Hurvitz

Arabic Literature
An overview
Pierre Cachia

Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry
Orient pearls
Julie Scott Meisami

Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily
Arabic-speakers and the end of Islam
Alexander Metcalfe

Modern Arab Historiography
Historical discourse and the nation-state
Youssef Choueiri

The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes
The Aristotelian reception
Salim Kemal

Published by Routledge

The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun
Zaid Ahmad

The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah
Conflict or concilation
Abdul Hakim I Al-Matroudi

Arabic Rhetoric
A pragmatic analysis
Hussein Abdul-Raof

Arab Representations of the Occident
East-West encounters in Arabic fiction
Rasheed El-Enany

God and Humans in Islamic Thought
Abd al-Jabbr, Ibn Sn and al-Ghazl
Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth

Original Islam
Malik and the madhhab of Madina
Yasin Dutton

Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an
One book, many meanings
Martin Whittingham

Birth of The Prophet Muhammad
Devotional piety in Sunni Islam
Marion Holmes Katz

Space and Muslim Urban Life
At the limits of the labyrinth of Fez
Simon O'Meara

Islam and Science
The intellectual career of Nizam al-Din al-Nizaburi
Robert G. Morrison

Ibn Arab Time and Cosmology
Mohamed Haj Yousef

The Status of Women in Islamic Law and Society
Annotated translation of al-hir al-addd's Imra'tun fi
l-sharca wa l-mujtamac, with an introduction
Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman

Islam and the Baha'i Faith
A comparative study of Muhammad Abduh and Abdul-Baha Abbas
Oliver Scharbrodt

Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism
Selected Eastern writings
Translated by Daniel O'Donoghue
Edited by Geoffrey Nash

Early Islamic Spain
The history of Ibn al-Q.tya
David James

German Orientalism
The study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945
Ursula Wokoeck

Mull adr and Metaphysics
Modulation of being
Sajjad H. Rizvi

Schools of Qur'anic Exegesis
Genesis and Development
Hussein Abdul-Raof

Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur'an
Common sense and philosophy in Islam
Avital Wohlman, translated by David Burrell

Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East
Edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley

Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism
Expanding the crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s1930s)
Amal N. Ghazal

Islamic Ethics
Divine command theory in Arabo-Islamic thought
Mariam al-Attar

Muslim Fortresses in the Levant
Between Crusaders and Mongols
Kate Raphael

Being Human in Islam
The impact of the evolutionary worldview
Damian Howard

The UAE and Foreign Policy
Foreign aid, identities and interests
Khalid S. Almezaini

A History of Early al-Andalus
The Akhbar Majmu'a
David James

Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought
Al-Ghazali's theory of mystical cognition and its Avicennian foundation
Alexander Treiger

Shi'i Theology in Iran
The challenge of religious experience
Ori Goldberg

Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics
A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics, Volume 1
Roshdi Rashed, translated and edited by Nader El-Bizri

The Muslim Conquest of Iberia
Medieval Arabic narratives
Nicola Clarke

Angels in Islam
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's al-Haba'ik fi akhbar al-mala'ik
Stephen Burge

Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis
A practical comparative-contrastive analysis
Hussein Abdul-Raof

Ibn al-Haytham and Analytical Mathematics
A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics, Volume 2
Roshdi Rashed, translated and edited by Nader El-Bizri

Ghazali's Politics in Context
Yazeed Said

Orientalism Revisited
Art, land and voyage
Edited by Ian Richard Netton

Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics, Volume 3
Roshdi Rashed, translated by J. V. Field

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt
Ibn al-Nafis, pulmonary transit and bodily resurrection