Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2143228
Mohammad Amin Mansouri
Q 5.51 and its prohibition against friendship with Christians and Jews. Considine places this revelation in context, showing that it was meant to reflect the early skirmishes Muhammad had with Qurayshites and their Christian allies at the Battle of Badr (71). Difficult passages such as this can best be understood in historical context as opposed to generically applying them to all contexts and communities in all times and places. There is a subtle irony here: Considine is keen to contextualize and problematize qur’anic passages when it suits him but is entirely uninterested in doing so with other sources when such analysis could weaken or obscure his argument. But all of this continues to fit his goal, which is to help non-Muslim readers, especially Christian ones, to move beyond a narrative in which Christians and Muslims are endlessly opposed to one another. This is an understandable goal, though Considine would have done well to include more details about scholarly debate in footnotes so that interested readers, or those aware of some disagreement on a particular reading of history, might have a good, peer-reviewed, and authoritative source to which they could look for more details. For example, Considine might have suggested to readers that what we know about the encounter between Muhammad and the Christian monk Baḥīrā (7–10) is entirely based on hagiographical sources, originating over a wide span of time, and coming from a variety of Christian and Muslim authors, most of whom use the story for very different purposes. Such a caveat could appear in a footnote without any danger of making his readers suspect the veracity of the encounter or doubt that Muhammad was in contact with and influenced in various ways by Christians. The book’s final two chapters contain more evidence coming from later periods of Muhammad’s life and leadership. Here, Considine attempts to underline what Christians and Muslims share and how tolerance was the predominant theme during the time when the Qur’an and the wider Muslim community was taking shape. In the end, interested readers will have to look to other literature for more scholarly treatments of Muhammad’s life and his contacts with Christian communities. Not much from this literature is flagged by Considine, either in the body of the text or in the notes, but readers may very well be convinced by Considine that the connections between Islam and Christianity are much closer and intertwined than they might otherwise have been led to believe. In this sense, Considine’s book is a helpful one and a suitable starting point for those who want to begin to learn more about Muhammad and his encounters with Christians.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2143229
Muammer İskenderoğlu
testimony to the fact that English translations of Islamic sources do not have to result in awkward, archaic or difficult English. Rustom’s insightful introduction is also helpful in contextualizing the book’s major themes and, given his ongoing research on the thought of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, readers can expect to learn even more about ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s ideas and their afterlives. Among such issues is the possible influence of Ismaili ideas on his thought, which was used to justify his murder, or the possible influence of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt on Persian Muslim thinkers such as ʿAzīz al-Dīn Nasafī (d. thirteenth century), who curiously composed a book bearing a similar title, Zubdat al-ḥaqāʾiq. Nasafī was also quite familiar with ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, whom he called in admiration the sultan of lovers (sultạ̄n al-ʿushshāq). Learning more about such connections can further shed light on the significance of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt in Islamic intellectual history. One thing that can perhaps be taken care of in future editions is the relatively small English font used, which slightly challenges the eye. All in all, however, Rustom’s new book is a masterful translation, superb critical edition and comprehensive guide to the thought of one of the most prominent Muslim thinkers whose ideas are still fairly unknown in the literature.
这一事实证明，将伊斯兰教源翻译成英语并不一定会产生笨拙、古老或难懂的英语。Rustom富有洞察力的介绍也有助于将本书的主要主题置于背景中，并且考虑到他正在进行的对艾因al-Quḍāt思想的研究，读者可以期望了解更多关于艾因al-Quḍāt的思想和他们的来世。这些问题包括伊斯玛仪派思想对他的思想可能产生的影响，这被用来为他的谋杀辩护，或者是伊安al-Quḍāt对波斯穆斯林思想家的可能影响，比如伊安(13世纪)，他奇怪地写了一本书名类似的书，Zubdat al-ḥaqā al- iq。纳萨夫也很熟悉艾因al-Quḍāt，他钦佩地称艾因为情人之苏丹(sulttni ' n al- tah ushshāq)。更多地了解这些联系可以进一步阐明伊因al-Quḍāt在伊斯兰思想史上的重要意义。有一件事也许可以在未来的版本中得到注意，那就是使用了相对较小的英文字体，这对眼睛来说有点挑战。然而，总而言之，Rustom的新书是一本出色的翻译，精湛的评论版本和对这位最杰出的穆斯林思想家的思想的全面指导，他的思想在文学中仍然相当不为人知。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2131236
C. Tieszen
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2147132
A. Belhaj
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2157560
Jake Kildoo
ABSTRACT This essay illustrates the Qur’an’s theologically creative conversation with Late Antique literature through an analysis of the text’s depiction of Abraham in Sura 21. After a short overview of modern scholarly engagement with the Qur’an’s ‘biblical subtext’ and some subsequent methodological remarks, I examine the ancient and Late Antique Jewish background to the qur’anic story of Abraham in Terah’s idol shop. Here, I elucidate the theological and exegetical concerns prompting these haggadic speculations about the patriarch’s life. In a word, Jewish exegetes employed this story as a way of demonstrating the distinct righteousness of Israel’s lineal forebear. Then, through comparative analysis, I show that the Qur’an takes up and redeploys this motif in the service of articulating its own prophetology, thereby subverting the earlier genealogical framing of this story. Notably, this repackaging of the Abraham-Terah narrative serves a polemical goal. In the last resort, the Qur’an is keen to show that its own followers – not Jews or Christians – are the true heirs of Abraham.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2139914
Ghassan el Masri
ABSTRACT The Iranian Revolution, the 9/11 attacks, the Arab Spring, the appearance of the Islamic State movement and other similar events have caused a shift in inter-faith engagements such that inter-religious dialogue, maintaining a balanced politico-religious discourse, has become imperative in international relations. This imperative is reshaping world politics. We observe that inter-religious engagements in response to such political events have had a steady katechontic character. The katechon, originally a biblical concept, refers to political institutions and cultural mechanisms used by sovereign actors, be they religious bodies, churches or states, to restrain [apocalyptic] chaos. Katechontic mechanisms essentially diffuse messianic zeal within a given community while redrawing how its members imagine the shape of things to come. Given the current trends in global culture, the katechontic character of inter-faith dialogue makes it most likely that, in the future, the world will be mainly animated by numerous simultaneous inter-cultural and inter-faith relations and modes of engagement, while the major political players seek to formulate a new vision for the future of the world.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2143230
A. Belhaj
that the autocracy of the Middle East arises from the theological voluntarism of Ashʿarism. ElMerheb’s main finding—that the common points in the political views of the thinkers discussed in this work, all Ashʿarīs, are the rule of law, limited government and the delegation of power—challenges this claim. It seems that each thinker examined here within a limited space deserves independent work, which gives future researchers new horizons to pursue.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2080440
Christopher Anzalone
{"title":"The Shīʿīs in Palestine: From the Medieval Golden Age until the Present","authors":"Christopher Anzalone","doi":"10.1080/09596410.2022.2080440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2022.2080440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45172,"journal":{"name":"Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81584686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2123659
Christopher J. van der Krogt
{"title":"Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology","authors":"Christopher J. van der Krogt","doi":"10.1080/09596410.2022.2123659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2022.2123659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45172,"journal":{"name":"Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90250488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2118427
Muammer İskenderoğlu
{"title":"Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy","authors":"Muammer İskenderoğlu","doi":"10.1080/09596410.2022.2118427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2022.2118427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45172,"journal":{"name":"Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73953919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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