Part 1 Preface vii Part 2 Note on Transliteration and Dates viii Part 3
Chronology ix Part 4 Map 1: The Christian and Muslim Worlds c. 830/215 51
Part 5 Map 2: The Christian and Muslim Worlds Today 178-9 Part 6
Introduction 1 Part 7 The Christian Background to the Coming of Islam 5
Chapter 8 Early Christian Thinking about Other Religions 5 Chapter 9 The
History of the Christian Church in the Middle East 11 Part 10 The Islamic
Impact 19 Chapter 11 Muhammad's Contacts with Christians 19 Chapter 12 The
Qur'an's View of Christians 24 Chapter 13 Precedents for Muslim Treatment
of Christians 29 Part 14 The First Age of Christian-Muslim Interactions
(-c. 830/215) 34 Chapter 15 Christain Reponses to the Coming of Islam 34
Chapter 16 Muslim Treatment of Christians I 41 Part 17 The Medieval Period
I: Confrontation or Interaction in the East? 50 Chapter 18 Contacts and
Exchanges 50 Chapter 19 Developing Mutual Perceptions 56 Chapter 20 Muslim
Treatment of Christians II 66 Chapter 21 Conversion to Islam 68 Part 22 The
Medieval Period II: Confrontation or Interaction in the West? 79 Chapter 23
Western Christian Reactions to the Coming of Islam 79 Chapter 24 The
Crusades 84 Chapter 25 Alternative Perceptions of Islam 92 Chapter 26 The
Transmission of Knowledge from the Islamic World to the West 96 Part 27 The
Changing Balance of Power: Mission and Imperialism? 109 Chapter 28 The
Growth of European Power 109 Chapter 29 The Establishment of Christian
Missions 113 Chapter 30 The Heyday of European Influence 123 Chapter 31
Muslim Responses 127 Part 32 New Thinking in the 19th/13th and 20th/14th
Centuries 142 Chapter 33 The Growth of Western Academic Study of Islam 142
Chapter 34 Changing Christian Thinking about Islam 149 Chapter 35 Changing
Muslim Thinking about Christianity 158 Part 36 Dialogue or Confrontation?
177 Chapter 37 The Dialogue Movement 177 Chapter 38 The Political Context
186 Chapter 39 Fellow-Pilgrims? 188 Part 40 Bibliography 199 Part 41 Index
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