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The Cross of Christ: Islamic Perspectives takes an in-depth look at all of the classical Muslim scholars considered to have affirmed Jesus' crucifixion. Each chapter provides the important historical and intellectual context for the commentators. As well, critical new translations of key texts are provided, offering important access to vital documents. The author argues that, rather than affirming the historicity of the crucifixion, the Isma'ilis tend to assume its historicity, in order to advance important Isma'ili doctrines. The author also contends that the commentators who explored ways to affirm the crucifixion, nonetheless made extensive use of traditional substitution legends that deny the crucifixion. In order to orient the reader, the book starts by introducing the reader to the Jesus of the Qur'an. It then compares Him to the Jesus of the New Testament and the Jesus of para-biblical literature. Upon this Qur'anic skeleton, the author layers a myriad of details found in seventeen works of classic Islamic literature, so that a truly unique, authentic and authoritative Jesus of Islam emerges.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I INTRODUCTION TO THE JESUS OF ISLAM
- Chapter One The Jesus of the Qur’an
- Chapter Two The Jesus of the Qur’an in the New Testament
- Chapter Three The Jesus of the Qur’an in Para-Biblical Literature
- Chapter Four The Jesus of Classical Islamic Literature
- Part I OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE JESUS OF ISLAM
- Part II INTRODUCTION TO THE ISMA‘ĪLĪ CASE FOR THE CRUCIFIXION
- Chapter Five Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī
- Chapter Six Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī Argues against al-Nasafī and against Rhazes
- Chapter Seven The Book of Highest Initiation
- Chapter Eight Abū Ya‘qūb al-Sijistānī
- Chapter Nine Ja‘far b. Manṣūr al-Yaman
- Chapter Ten Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’
- Part II OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE ISM ‘ĪLĪ CASE FOR THE CRUCIFIXION
- Part III INTRODUCTION TO THE TAFASĪR CASE FOR THE CRUCIFIXION
- Chapter Eleven The Substitution Legends of the Jāmi‘ al-Bayān ‘an Ta’wīl al-Qur’ānof al-Ṭabarī
- Chapter Twelve The Four Grammarians of the Crucifixion
- Chapter Thirteen Four Rationalists Discuss Whether Allah Can Cast the Likeness of One Man upon Another
- Chapter Fourteen The Mysticism of Rūzbihān al-Baqlī
- Chapter Fifteen Two Anti-Christian Polemical Works
- Part III OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE CASE FOR THE CRUCIFIXION
- Conclusion
- Overview of Related Literature
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Selective General Index
- Bible Index
- Qur’an Index
- About the Author