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Title: Christianity and Islam

Author: C.H. Becker

Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11198]

Language: English

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CHRISTIANITY

AND

ISLAM

BY

C.H. BECKER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL HISTORY IN
THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE OF HAMBURG

TRANSLATED BY
REV. H.J. CHAYTOR, M.A.

HEADMASTER OF PLYMOUTH COLLEGE

1909

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The subject from different points of view: limits of treatment

The nature of the subject: the historical points of connection between
Christianity and Islam

A. Christianity and the rise of Islam:

1. Muhammed and his contemporaries

2. The influence of Christianity upon the development of Muhammed

3. Muhammed's knowledge of Christianity

4. The position of Christians under Muhammedanism

B. The similarity of Christian and Muhammedan metaphysics during the
middle ages:

1. The means and direction by which Christian influence affected
Islam

2. The penetration of daily life by the spirit of religion;
asceticism, contradictions and influences affecting the
development of a clerical class and the theory of
marriage

3. The theory of life in general with reference to the doctrine
of immortality

4. The attitude of religion towards the State, economic life,
society, etc.

5. The permanent importance to Islam of these influences: the
doctrine of duties

6. Ritual

7. Mysticism and the worship of saints

8. Dogma and the development of scholasticism

C. The influence of Islam upon Christianity:

The manner in which this influence operated, and the explanation
of the superiority of Islam

The influence of Muhammedan philosophy

The new world of European Christendom and the modern East

Conclusion. The historical growth of religion

Bibliography

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