1. Preface: A Word on Mahmoud Ayoub Michael Sells 2. Introduction: Pathways to Dialogue, The Journey of Mahmoud Ayoub Irfan A. Omar 3. Christians, Muslims, Jews, and their Religions Jacques Waardenburg 4. Eschatology: Some Muslim and Christian Data Willem A. Bijlefeld 5. Two Traditions, One Space: Orthodox Christians and Muslims Rev. George C. Papademetriou 6. Christian-Muslim Relations into the Twenty-First Century Alwi Shihab 7. Symbolism and Allegory in the Qur’an: Muhammad Asad’s Modernist Translation Abdin Chande 8. A Versatile Mathal: ‘The Man Who Hired Laborers’ Marston Speight 9. Knowledge, Women and Gender in the Hadith: A Feminist Interpretation Sa‘diyya Shaikh 10. Faith and Unfaith in Pre-occultation Shi‘ism: A Study in Theology and Social History L. Clarke 11. The Notion of Necessary Being in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Philosophical Theology Salahuddin Kafrawi 12. ‘The Poorest Form of Theism:’ Schopenhauer, Islam and the Perils of Comparative Hermeneutics Douglas L. Berger 13. Prophetic Models in Islamic and Christian Spirituality According to Ibn ‘Arabi and Meister Eckhart Etin Anwar
Biography
IRFAN A. OMAR IS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ISLAM AND WORLD RELIGIONS AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY IN MILWAUKEE. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND IS CO-EDITOR OF HEIRS OF ABRAHAM (ORBIS 2005, FORTHCOMING).
