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Islam and Christian—Muslim Relations Contents of Volume 14, 2003 EDITORIAL BOARD Islam and Christian—Muslim Relations is edited jointly John L. Esposito and David Thomas, Joint by the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian—Muslim Relations (CSIC), University of Editors David Thomas and John O. Voll, Review Editors Birmingham, Birmingham, UK and the Center for Muslim—Christian Understanding, Georgetown Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, Associate Editor University, Washington DC, USA. The Journal Jabal M. Buaben provides a forum for all those who wish to enhance Jorgen S. Nielsen their critical appreciation of the two religious Sigvard von Sicard traditions both on the historical, empirical and on the Carol Bebawi, Editorial Assistant ideological, theoretical levels. The Editors welcome scholarly contributions concerning Islam in its relations with other groups and ideologies, past and present, as well as on Christian—Muslim relations worldwide. Articles are also welcomed which deal with the role of Islam and the nature of Christian—Muslim relations, and analyses of theological, historical, social, political and cultural responses to Muslim interaction with Christian and other societies and cultures, whether as minorities or majorities. The Journal publishes articles, documentation, reports, review articles and book reviews. Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission and books for review, should be addressed to the Editor, Islam and Christian—Muslim Relations, either CSIC, University of Birmingham, Bristol Road, Birmingham B29 6LQ, UK, or The Center for Muslim—Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. CONSULTANT EDITORS Details concerning the submission and preparation of Professor Al-Tayib Z. Al-Abdin, Jnstitute of articles can be found on the inside back cover of each African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum, issue. 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Dr James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic The 2003 US Institutional subscription rate is Studies, UK US$474; for all other subscription prices see Professor Jane I. Smith, Hartford Seminary, SUBSCRIPTION RATES page. Periodicals Postage paid at Hartford, Connecticut, USA Champlain, NY. Professor Christian W. Troll, US POSTMASTER: send address cormections (US Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, addresses only) to cICM, PO Box 1518, Champlain, Frankfurt a.M., Germany NY 12919, USA. Volume 14 Number 1 January 2003 Notes on Contributors Jacques Waardenburg. Between Baghdad and Birmingham: minorities—Christian and Muslim Muda Ismail Abd. Rahman. The Interpretation of the Birth of Jesus and his Miracles in the Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan Yoginder Sikand. Peace, Dialogue and Da‘wa: an analysis of the writings of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Ahsene Giil Tokay. Macedonian Reforms and Muslim Opposition during the Hamidian Era: 1878-1908 Martin Accad. The Gospels in the Muslim Discourse of the Ninth to the Fourteenth Centuries: an exegetical inventorial table (part I) BOOK REVIEWS BOOKS RECEIVED Volume 14 Number 2 April 2003 Notes on Contributors Emad Eldin Shahin. The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria Isabel O’Connor. The Fall of the Almohad Empire in the Eyes of Modern Spanish Historians Deina Abdelkader. Modernity, the Principles of Public Welfare (maslaha) and the End Goals of Shari‘a (magdasid) in Muslim Legal Thought Abdelaziz Testas. Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes: a comparison between Huntington and Siddiqui Kevin Smullin Brown. Reforming England’s Blasphemy Law to Protect the Individual Martin Accad. The Gospels in the Muslim Discourse of the Ninth to the Fourteenth Centuries; an exegetical inventorial table (part IT) BOOK REVIEWS BOOKS RECEIVED Volume 14 Number 3 July 2003 Notes on Contributors Bilal Gékkir. The Application of Western Comparative Religious and Linguistic Approaches to the Qur’an in Turkey Rainer Hermann. Political Islam in Secular Turkey Oddbjorn Leirvik. Al-Damir, Human Conscience and Christian—Muslim Relations Adnan Aslan. What is Wrong with the Concept of Religious Experience? F. B. P. More. Tipu Sultan and the Christians Jorgen S. Nielsen. Contemporary Discussions on Religious Minorities in Islam Martin Accad. The Gospels in the Muslim Discourse of the Ninth to the Four- teenth Centuries: an exegetical inventorial table (part IIT) REVIEW ARTICLE Felice Dassetto. What Islamism and What Decline? BOOK REVIEWS BOOKS RECEIVED Volume 14 Number 4 October 2003 Notes on Contributors Fohn O. Voll. Introduction Richard N. Frye. Persia in the Mind of the West JFamsheed K. Choksy. Hagiography and Monotheism in History: doctrinal encounters between Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity William C. Chittick. The Pluralistic Vision of Persian Sufi Poetry Muhammad Este’lami. Rumi and the Universality of his Message Roger M. Savory. Relations between the Safavid State and its Non-Muslim Minorities Martin Accad. The Gospels in the Muslim Discourse of the Ninth to the Fourteenth Centuries: an exegetical inventorial table (part IV) BOOK REVIEWS BOOKS RECEIVED Volume Contents and Author Index to Volume 14, 2003