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Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism - Islam's Special Role in Restoring Convivencia (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism - Islam's Special Role in Restoring Convivencia (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism
and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as
the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes
that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led
to the current hostility. This is because the common claims of both
mainstream and radical Islam that Islam represents the high point
of the Abrahamic tradition, and therefore a purification of Judaism
and Christianity, have been largely ignored, misunderstood or
blatantly rejected by these faiths and therefore by 'the West' in
general. This rejection has effectively rendered Islam as the poor
cousin, if not the illegitimate sibling, of the tradition. In turn,
this has created long-term resentment and hostility within Islam as
well as robbed the 'Judaeo-Christian West' of a rich, inter-faith
understanding of the wider Abrahamic tradition. The book explores
these claims through textual, historical and theological analyses,
proposing that many of them stand up better to critical scrutiny
than has been commonly acknowledged. It further proposes that
seeing Islam in this way has potential to re-awaken its
self-understanding as a leader of accord among the Abrahamic
faiths, of the kind that characterized the era of Convivencia when,
in medieval Spain, Islam constructed and contributed to advanced
civilizations characterized by relatively harmonious co-existence
between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The book focuses on the role
that a more respected and self-confident Islam could play in
forging enhanced inter-faith relations in a world that desperately
needs them as it struggles to understand and deal with modern and
particularly vicious forms of radical Islamism.
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