"Reveals rivalry and confrontation, but also fascination for the exotic as she points out clichTs and distortions that have shaped western views of Islam and its founder."--Book News, Inc.Generations of Western writers --from the Crusades to the present.
Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the ""Dialogue with Trypho"", written by Justin Martyr (circa 165), a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The ""Dialogue"" purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a ......
During the years between the Council of Nicaea (325) and the Council of Constantinople (381), imperial opposition to Nicene theology sent several of its supporters into exile. One of these supporters was Hilary, the Bishop of Poitiers. Begun during its author's exile (356-360), Hilary's De Trinitate provides a comprehensive discussion of the ......
An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
Chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times, including such historic massacres as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the Reformation, and such atrocities as the Holocaust, and the barbaric cruelty of the theocracy in Iran.
This volume provides an overview of the shape and history of major black religious bodies: Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal. The authors introduce the denominations and their demographics before relating their historical development--from the 18th century to the end of the Civil Rights Movement--into the groups readers know today.
From the time of the Crusades to the present day, European portraits of Muhammad have offered biased and negative representations. This text traces the representations of Muhammad and Islam in Western texts and its manifestation in modern attitudes to Islamic fundamentalism.
This work presents a comparative survey of the ancient customs and religions of Central Asia. The forms of worship and spiritual expression among the different peoples of Inner Eurasia were largely based on the animals in their lives, finding their way into the mythologies of the West.
An anthology of studies of Muhammad and early Islam since the beginnings of Islamic Studies in the nineteenth century. It calls into question the Koran as the basis for objective historical knowledge of Muhammad. It also questions the reliability of other Arabic documents that supposedly attest to events in the life of Muhammad and his followers.
