EAN: 9783319155470

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES RECONCILI...

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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