Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism : Islam?s Special Role in Restoring Convivencia
\ Terence Lovat, Robert Crotty
New York
: Springer
, 2015
137p
Springer Briefs in Religious Studies
Index
Part I. The Abrahamic Religions(Islam, Christianity and Judaism)and a Theory of Religion -- 1 An Introduction to the Abrahamic Religions --Abstract --Introduction --Abrahamic Religions --The Abraham/Ibrahim Story --Supersession --The Uneven Issue of the Enlightenment --Islamic Scholarship --2 A Theory of Religion and Being Religious --Abstract --Introduction --Culture and Multiculturalism --Attitudes to Everyday Culture --Religion and Religious Pluralism --Attitudes to Religious Culture --Religious Pluralism --Ethnocentrism and Religious Exclusivism --Summarizing Religious Exclusivism --Religious Collectivities --Religious Myth --Sacred Ritual --Mediation --The Mediatorial System --Part IIThe Sacred Story(ies) of the AbrahamicReligions from Three Vantage Points --3 The Story from the Vantage Point of Judaism --Abstract --Introduction --The Abraham Story Within Judaism --Dating the Jewish Story --Unpacking the Meaning of the Story --The Hasmoneans --Synchronic Meaning of the Story --Isaac in the Jewish Story --4 The Story from the Vantage Point of Christianity --Abstract --Introduction --The Jewish Story in the Book of Hebrews and the Letter of James --The Jewish Story in the Synoptic Gospels --An Extended Version of the Aqedah? --Later Christian Writing --The Growth of the Story --5 The Story from the Vantage Point of Islam --Abstract --Introduction --Ibrahim and Ishaq in the Islamic Story and Ritual --Ishaq and Ishma'il in the Islamic Version --Biblical Truth or Jewish-Christian --The Islamic Account: Re-Interpretation or Original? --The Qur'an and the Overwhelming Basis of Submission --Part IIIIslamic and Islamist Scholarshipand the Abrahamic (Ibrahimic)Tradition --6 The Heart of the Ibrahimic Story in Islam --Abstract --Introduction. Ibrahim, Ishma'il and the Distinctiveness of Islam --The Importance of Ibrahim and Ishma'il to Islam --The Centrality of Ishma'il --Further Reflection on the Abraham/Ibrahim Story --Positioning Abraham and His Progeny in the Jewish Account --An Arabic Account of Ibrahim and His Progeny --Moses/Musa --The Need for and Justification of Islam --7 The Increasing Cogency of Islamism --Abstract --Introduction --Islamic Reinterpretation of the Past --Islamist Radicalism --Muhammad al-Ashmawi --Where to from Here? --Part IVExploring Convivenciaand the Potential for IslamicLeadership --8 The Historical Exemplar: La Convivencia --Abstract --Introduction --Convivencia and the Earlier Theory of Religion --The Caliphate of Cordoba --Norman Palermo --Christian Toledo --Convivencia in the North of Spain --Summarizing Convivencia --Dismantling the Umbrella and Destroying Convivencia --9 Re-constructing Convivencia in the Twenty-First Century --Abstract --Introduction --Abrahamic Harmony and Islam's Special Role --Releasing the Exclusivist Trigger --Conclusion --References --Index.