Islam - History, doctrine, Islam and Christianity [hardcover]

One more book on Islam? The reader will notice very quickly: there should hardly be an equivalent of this work in French. Christine Schirrmacher, internationally renowned Islamologist, presents a systematic, structured and complete study aimed at readers who want to deepen their knowledge of Islam from an evangelical perspective.

The work is an introduction to Islam and focuses on its main aspects: its history, from its context of birth in the Arabian Peninsula, its genesis and up to the life of Muhammad; its main doctrines; its ethics; and its sacred book, the Koran. Then several currents of Islam are reviewed: Sunnism, Shiism, Islamism, Sufism, the Ahmadiyya movement and popular Islam. The last part is devoted to the comparison between Islam and Christianity: the prophets and Jesus such as the Koran and the Bible speak of it, the history of the Muslim-Christian controversy, and the main apologists of Islam and Christianity. Christianity.

Christine Schirrmacher is a specialist in Islam; she is a professor at the University of Bonn, at the universities of Tübingen and Erfurt (Germany), and at the faculties of evangelical theology of Gießen (Germany) and Louvain (Belgium). She is also a consultant to the World Evangelical Alliance on Islam. In 2016, she was appointed by the Bundestag, the German Federal Diet, as representative of academic institutions to the advisory board of the German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin.

ISBN: 9782755002881