![]() | The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam Subjects: ARAB COUNTRIES -- CHURCH HISTORY; CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE -- ARAB COUNTRIES -- HISTORY; CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS -- ISLAM -- HISTORY; ISLAM -- RELATIONS -- CHRISTIANITY -- HISTORY; Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an? Sidney H. Griffith is a professor at the Catholic University of America, where he teaches Syriac and Christian Arabic. |
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