Readings Copy

Essential Reading:

• Accad, Martin. “Quest for the Historical Muhammad.” in The Religious Other : A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, edited by Martin Accad, and Jonathan Andrews, 285-307. Langham Creative Projects, 2020. 
• Brown, Daniel.  “What We Don’t Know About Islamic Origins.” in The Religious Other : A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, edited by Martin Accad, and Jonathan Andrews, 128-139. Langham Creative Projects, 2020.  The beginning of this essay will be review for you. The relevant part for this week begins on p. 135 with “What options do we have.” This was written for a specifically Christian audience, but it may be useful to those who are not Christians by providing a window into some Christian thinking about Islam.
• Brown, Daniel.  Islamic Origins and Christian Theological Engagement with Islam. Islamochristiana. Forthcoming.
• Donner, Fred.  “Early Muslims and Peoples of the Book,” in Routledge Handbook on Early Islam, ed. Herbert Berg, 177-193. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018

Recommended Supplementary readings:

• Madigan, Daniel. “Revisionist Historiography and Christian Attitudes towards Muhammad.”

Bibliography

• Accad, Martin, “The Quest for the Historical Muhammad”, in Martin Accad, Jonathan Andrews (eds.), The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qurʾan and Muhammad, Langham Global Library, Carlisle 2020, 285-307.
• Brown, Daniel, “What We Don’t Know about Islamic Origins”, in Martin Accad, Jonathan Andrews (eds.), The Religious Other: A Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qurʾan and Muhammad, Langham Global Library, Carlisle 2020, 128-139.
• Cragg, Kenneth, Counsels in Contemporary Islam, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1965.
• Donner, Fred, Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2010.
• Krokus, Christian S., The Theology of Louis Massignon: Islam, Christ, and the Church, Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC 2017.
• Madigan, Daniel, “Revisionist Historiography and Christian Attitudes toward Muhammad”, Campion Hall Seminar Papers on Christian Theological Engagement with Islam, First Georgetown-Campion Hall Seminar: Muhammad, November 12-13, 2010 https:// ‌s3.amazonaws.com/berkley-center/‌120711‌Madigan‌Revisionist‌Historiography‌Christian‌Attitudes‌Muhammad.pdf. Accessed 4 February 2023.
• Marshall, David, “Christian Theological Engagement with Islam: A Survey of Recent Publications”, The Ecumenical Review 73 (2021) 892-911.
• Schimmel, Annemarie, And Muhammad is His Messenger, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1985.
• Turner, Denys, “Christians, Muslims, and the name of God : who owns it, and how would we know?”, in Miroslav Volf (ed.), Do We Worship the Same God? : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids MI 2012, 18-36.
• Volf, Miroslav, Allah: a Christian Response, Harper One, New York 2011.
• Younès, Michel, Les approches chrétiennes de l’islam: tensions, déplacements, enjeux, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2020.