Christians Why This Muslim Violence

Author : Christian C. Sahner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120313X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Martyrs Under Islam written by Christian C. Sahner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups of individuals rejected this faith through dramatic acts of resistance, including apostasy and blasphemy. Using previously untapped sources in a range of Middle Eastern languages, Christian Sahner introduces an unknown group of martyrs who were executed at the hands of Muslim officials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. Found in places as diverse as Syria, Spain, Egypt, and Armenia, they include an alleged descendant of Muhammad who converted to Christianity, high-ranking Christian secretaries of the Muslim state who viciously insulted the Prophet, and the children of mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians. Sahner argues that Christians never experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, and indeed, they remained the largest portion of the population in the greater Middle East for centuries after the Arab conquest. Still, episodes of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian identity in the new Islamic empire. Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.

Author : Raymond Ibrahim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621570266
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucified Again written by Raymond Ibrahim and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what the history textbooks told you about martyrdom being a thing of the past. Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered today. Raymond Ibrahim unveils the shocking truth about Christians in the Muslim world. Believers in Jesus Christ suffer oppression and are massacred at the hands of radicals for worshipping and spreading the gospel of the Lord. Discover the true-life stories that the media won't report in Ibrahim's Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.

Author : Jan Harm Boer
Publisher : Belleville, Ont. : Essence Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians, why this Muslim Violence? written by Jan Harm Boer and published by Belleville, Ont. : Essence Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Nigerian Christians and Muslims riot, kill and destroy?Why should religion bring Nigeria constantly to the brink? Who is to blame for all this terror? Muslims? Christians? Both? Neither?What are the causes for all this violence? Are they religious? Political?These are the questions this book answers from the Nigerian Christian point of view. The volume in your hand is the third in a series called Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations. It provides extensive coverage of Nigerian Christian opinions about Nigerian riots. Included are many quotations so that you may hear the voice of Nigerian Christians themselves. Volume 1 describes the Nigerian riots. Volume 2 gives the Muslim perspective on these riots. Later volumes will deal with other issues that cause friction between the two religions. The overall aim of this series is to help both constituencies work towards a solution of which both will be proud. About the AuthorBorn in The Netherlands, Dr. Boer emigrated to Canada during his teens. He received his tertiary education in the USA, but did his post-graduate work at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has worked in Nigeria for a total of 30 years. He has served the Institute of Church and Society, the Christian Council of Nigeria, Christian Health Association of Nigeria, the Theological College of Northern Nigeria, the University of Jos and the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria. He has written several books, mostly on Nigerian social issues. See his Web site www.SocialTheology.com. Now retired, he is continuing his research and writing in Vancouver, Canada. He keeps up to date with Nigerian developments via the internet and by occasional trips to Nigeria.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433501155
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasonable Faith written by William Lane Craig and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : Walt Huber
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460211294
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Did God Do It? written by Walt Huber and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered... How Did God Do It? How did God perform the many miracles and supernatural events described in the Holy Bible — without violating the laws of physics and chemistry that He Himself put into place? And without conflicting with the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity? This book proposes a theory that marries faith and rationality in a symphony of science and scripture.

Author : Jamie Cawley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784628980
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beliefs written by Jamie Cawley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communism and Environmentalism. All have over 100 million followers and the full structure of faith-determined behavioural guidance.

Author : Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780236883
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Sword written by Alan G. Jamieson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent surge in terrorist acts and military confrontations, as well as ever-strengthening fundamentalist ideologies, the Christian–Muslim divide is perhaps more visible than ever—but it is not new. Alan G. Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the Christian–Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history. Faith and Sword opens with the tumultuous first centuries of the conflict, examining the religious precepts that framed clashes between Christians and Muslims and that ultimately fueled the legendary Crusades. Traversing the full breadth of the Arab lands and Christendom, Jamieson chronicles the turbulent saga from the Arab conquests of the seventh century to the rise of the powerful Ottoman Empire and its fall at the end of World War I. He then explores the complex dynamics that emerged later in the twentieth century, as Christendom was transformed into the secular West and Islamic nations overthrew European colonialism to establish governments straddling modernity and religiosity. From the 1979 Iranian revolution to the Lebanon hostage crisis to—in this new expanded edition—the recent wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Faith and Sword reveals the essence of this enduring struggle and its consequences.

Author : Ednan Aslan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658183020
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Violence written by Ednan Aslan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident that many impulses from this work will also impact the direction of churches and other religious communities, such that religions, all together, will try to mobilize the members of their communities to actively contribute to world peace. In this way, religions will be perceived as part of the solution for world peace, enabling them to move beyond the stigma of their damaged reputations.

Author : John Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061981419
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus Wars written by John Philip Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful charactersshaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles, today’s church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus, and the papacy as weknow it would never have come into existence. Jesus Wars reveals the profoundimplications of what amounts to an accident of history: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another.

Author : J. Harold Ellens
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275997081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Destructive Power of Religion written by J. Harold Ellens and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Select chapters from the controversial 4-volume set examining the influence of sacred texts shaping human nature, society, politics and military strategy across the last 3,000 years.