Muslims and others : relations in context / / Jacques Waardenburg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782191703321
• Autore: Waardenburg Jacques <1930-2015.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-19527-1; 9786612195273; 3-11-020095-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 519 pages)
• Collana: Religion and reason ; ; v. 41
• Disciplina: 297.2/8
• Soggetti: Islam - Relations; Muslims - Non-Muslim countries; Europe Ethnic relations; Islamic countries Relations Europe; Europe Relations Islamic countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Content -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Christians, Muslims, Jews, and their Religions -- Chapter 2. Three Monotheistic Religions: Structure and Patterns of Meaning -- Chapter 3. The Earliest Relations of Islam with other Religions -- Chapter 4. Cases of Interreligious Dialogue under Muslim Rule -- Chapter 5. Two Shining Lights: Medieval Islam and Christianity -- Chapter 6. World Religions Seen in Islamic Light -- Chapter 7. Twentieth Century Writings about Other Religions: A Classification -- Chapter 8. Some Observations on Muslim Studies of Religions -- Chapter 9. Some Muslim Reflections on the West -- Chapter 10. Europe and its Muslim Neighbors: Glimpses of Dialogue -- Chapter 11. Muslims and Their Islam in Europe: Initiatives and Responses -- Chapter 12. Diversity and Unity of Islam in Europe: Islamic Constructs -- Chapter 13. Muslims and Others in Europe: Cultural and Intercultural Contacts -- Chapter 14. Muslim Minorities: Politics and Religion in the Balkans -- Chapter 15. Muslim-Christian Minority Problems in Europe and the Middle East -- Chapter 16. Issues in Muslim-Christian Relations -- Chapter 17. Between Baghdad and Birmingham: Opportunities of Minorities -- Chapter 18. Muslims and ; Christians: Changing Identities -- Chapter 19. Muslims and Westerners: Changing Attitudes -- Back matter
• Sommario/riassunto: Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings. After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.