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El islam da miedo. Tras la caída del comunismo, el islam es para los europeos la nueva amenaza que se cierne sobre la vieja civilización cristiana: la punta de lanza de las jóvenes y prolíficas naciones de Asia y África que llaman insistentemente a nuestras puertas... Pero el miedo es mal consejero y hace que muchos vean la realidad con excesivo simplismo: para ellos, el islam significa fanatismo, guerra santa, integrismo, poligamia, fatalismo... Son pocos los que se esfuerzan por conocer por dentro esta religión, cuyos orígenes, al igual que los del cristianismo y el judaísmo, se remontan a Abraham, el padre de todos cuantos confiesan al Dios único. Este libro, escrito para ayudar a comprender ciertas dimensiones esenciales del islam como religión (su culto, su teología, su mística...), se dirige a todos cuantos buscan informarse sin prejuicios: los cristianos que desean dialogar con los musulmanes sobre su respectiva fe, y los hombres de buena voluntad que quieren superar tanta incomprensión y tanto estereotipo interesado. ROBERT CASPAR, miembro de los "padres blancos", es especialista en temas islámicos, experto en el Concilio Vaticano II y profesor de teología y mística musulmanas. Desde hace años, reside en Túnez, inmerso en una sociedad moldeada por el islam desde hace más de un milenio. Su libro es una introducción a la fe musulmana y un testimonio personal.
«Durante cincuenta y seis años me he percibido a mi mismo como musulmán y, en torno a mí, los demás me han identificado como un musulmán. A los cincuenta y seis años he renacido como cristiano anulando la identidad islámica de la que he renegado consciente y voluntariamente. Dentro y fuera de mí todo cambiará. Nada será ya como antes». En la noche del 22 de marzo de 2008, durante la liturgia pascual celebrada por el papa Benedicto XVI en la Basílica de San Pedro, Magdi Allam recibió por manos del pontífice los sacramentos de la iniciación cristiana y se convirtió en Magdi Cristiano Allam, completando un duro y fatigoso camino que le ha llevado a distanciarse definitivamente del islam, la religión heredada de sus padres, y de una historia personal de dudas y laceraciones. El acontecimiento suscitó no sólo el interés de los medios de comunicación de todo el mundo, sino también agrias polémicas, alimentadas por quienes consideraron que la decisión de Allam de hacer pública su profesión de fe, y la del Papa de ratificarla, era una especie de «provocación» que alimentaba el fuego de la «guerra de religión» y el «choque de civilizaciones». Gracias, Jesús es el relato de una conversión religiosa, es un grito de alarma en defensa de la sacralidad de la vida y de la dignidad y la libertad de la persona y, al mismo tiempo, un fuerte mensaje de esperanza para una auténtica cultura del diálogo y de la paz.
Originally published in 1953, Bridge to Islam is a detailed study of the beliefs of Muhammad and his followers, exploring the relationship between the world of Islam and that of Christianity. Drawing attention to the common beliefs between Islam and Christianity, the book examines the relationship between these two prominent religions and poses the argument that it is only through a proper appreciation of the differences in spiritual attitudes that a bridge of understanding and knowledge can be built between them. It traces the religious histories of different countries in the Middle East and assesses the position of Islam and Christianity in each one. Bridge to Islam will appeal to those with an interest in the history of Christianity, the history of Islam, religious studies, and the Middle East.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Theology - Historic Theology, Ecclesiastical History, grade: A-, Prairie Bible Institute, course: History of the Growth of Christianity, language: English, abstract: Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the last prophet and founder of Islam, is one of the most influential people who walked on this earth. By the time of the prophet’s death at the age of sixty-two he had brought into existence a dynamic movement that would carry Islam through the centuries and across the continents, birthing empires, transforming the sciences, and challenging economic, cultural, and political systems. Considering the religion of Islam, one may wonder who this Muhammad, the last prophet, was and how his instructions were shaped by the cultural, economical, social and religious environment in which he lived. The other questions that may rise are how this small movement could become within centuries the dominant religion of the Mediterranean, and why Christianity was not able to stop it. This essay will propose that it was due to the lack of unity among Christians on the one hand and on the other hand to Muhammad`s attractive instructions about brotherhood and solidarity among his followers, fervour, faith, simplicity of Islam, moral values, and the use of the sword that Islam augmented so rapidly and displaced Christianity.
First published in 1991, this title explores the myths and misperceptions that have underpinned Muslim-Christian relations throughout history, and which endure to the current day. William Montgomery Watt describes how the myths originated and developed, and argues that both Muslims and Christians need to have a more accurate knowledge and positive appreciation of the other religion. Chapters discuss the Qur’anic perception of Christianity, attitudes to Greek philosophy and the relationship between Islam and Christianity in medieval Europe. Written by one of the leading authorities on Islam in the West, Muslim-Christian Encounters remains a relevant and vivid study and will be of particular value to students of Islam, religious history and sociology.
This detailed guide to Islam was meant to assist Christian missionaries achieve their ends with Muslim communities around the world. It gives attention not only to subjects typically included (the rise of Islam, the life of the Prophet, the spread of Islam, tenets, ritual, and ethics of the faith, all criticized from a Christian standpoint; the best methods with which to convert Muslims, profiles of missions in Muslim nations and prominent missionaries) but also discusses sects within the faith and highlights contemporary political/national features. The book provides numerous maps, estimations of population around the world, and other demographic information. It also includes images of a variety of subjects from around the world. These include photographs of places such as Mecca, Tunis, a marketplace in Bamum, West Africa, and mosques from around the world; photographs of pilgrims to Mecca from Yemen, Morocco, India, Afghanistan, Zanzibar, and other places; photographs of students of all ages from universities and mission schools; and more.
The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.