Qur'anic Christians
Qur'anic Christians
The Muslim perception of Christianity and Christians is an issue of longstanding debate among scholars of both Islam and Christianity. In this book, Jane McAuliffe analyses a series of passages from the Qur'an that make ostensibly positive remarks about Christians. She conducts this analysis through a close examination of Muslim exegesis of the Qur'an, spanning ten centuries of commentary. In this effort to trace various interpretations of these passages, the author attempts to determine whether these positive passages can justifiably serve as proof-texts of Muslim tolerance of Christianity. She finds that commentators have consistently distinguished between the vast majority of Christians, who are denounced for having turned from the true word of God, and a small minority, who accepted the prophethood of Muhammed and are praised.
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September 2007Paperback
9780521039284
356 pages
229 × 154 × 22 mm
0.537kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Qur'anic Commentary and Commentators:
- 1. Text and tafsir
- 2. From Tabari to Tabataba'i
- Part II. Qur'anic Commendation of Christians:
- 3. Nazarenes of faith and action
- 4. Followers of the Qur'anic Jesus
- 5. Steadfast and submissive
- 6. The promised bounty of piety
- 7. The praiseworthy amity of Christians
- 8. Christians as pre-Qur'anic Muslims
- 9. Compassion, mercy and monasticism
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Index of Qur'anic verses
- Index of names and subjects.
