Jews and Muslims in history: the record under Islam
Do Muslims hate Jews? What the Qur’an commands, and what historians find in the record of Jewish life under Islam compared with medieval Christian…
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Interfaith Studies
Encounter, dialogue and cooperation among the Abrahamic communities.
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Can a Muslim marry a Christian? Interfaith marriage
Can a Muslim marry a Christian or a Jew? The Qur’an’s rule, the rights Islamic law gave the wife, and how Jewish and Christian…
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Are the Abrahamic religions violent? War and peace in scripture and history
Has religion caused most wars? What the historical record shows, what the scriptures of each tradition command about war and peace, and the verse…
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The Amman Message and A Common Word
Two landmark declarations: a modern Muslim consensus on who is a Muslim, and an open letter to Christian leaders.
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The Cairo Genizah
A synagogue storeroom in Cairo yielded 400,000 medieval fragments and reshaped the study of Jewish history.
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Interfaith dialogue in the modern era
How Jews, Christians and Muslims have sought understanding across religious lines since the nineteenth century.