Images of Jesus Christ in Islam

Preface
1 Introduction
A sensitive question
The status of Christology in Christian-Muslim dialogue
Bibliographical introduction
Methodological considerations
2. Christ in the Qur'an and in Hadith
Christ in the Qur'an
Jesus in Hadith
The understanding of 'gospel' (injil)
Muhammad and Jesus in Hadith and legend
3. Jesus in Muslim legend and Qur'anic exegesis
Jesus in Muslim legend and storytelling I
Classical exegesis of the Qur'an (tafsir)
4. Jesus in Shi'ite tradition
Jewish in Shi'ite Hadith and Tafsir
The brethren of purity
The significance of suffering
5. Jesus in Sufism
Various representations of Jesus in Sufism
Summarising central features of Sufi images of Jesus
The mystical perfection: Muhammad
6. Encounters and confrontations: dialogue, apologetics, polemics
The role of Christ in early intra-Muslim polemics
Christian apologetics under Muslim rule
Muslim polemics, directed towards submitted Christians
Muslim polemical refutations and sympathetic reinterpretations in the medieval era
Christian polemics against Islam in the medieval era: enemy images and attempts at understanding
7. Twentieth-century tendencies and discussions
Christ in nineteenth and twentieth-century Muslim theology: reinterpretation, polemics and dialogue
Jesus in twentieth-century Muslim poetry
Christ in Egyptian Muslim literature, from 1950 onwards
8. Issues of dialogue
Why Christology?
Jesus and Muhammad
Christology, anthropology, theology
Rethinking Christology in dialogue with Islam
Christology and human experience: from miracles to cross?
The ethical connection
Doing theology
Postscript: Knowing with oneself, knowing with the other: A 'conscientous' dialogue between religions?
Bibliography
Index of authors