📚 Book: The Humanity of Muhammad | ✍️ Author: Craig Considine | Episode 13

Book Café Podcast

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📚 Book: "The Humanity of Muhammad - A Christian View"
✍️ Author: Craig Considine
📖 Publisher: Blue Dome Press
✍️ Author's bio:
✝️ Dr. Craig Considine is an award winning professor and the best-selling author of "The Humanity of Muhammad - A Christian View."
✝️ He is recognized as an authority in interfaith dialogue.
✝️ He has written seven books and multiple articles for the field of Christian-Muslim relations and Islamic studies.
✝️ Dr. Considine's opinions appear regularly in leading news and media outlets around the world.
✝️ He is a practicing Roman Catholic of Irish, Italian, Scottish, and English descent and a native of Needham, Massachusetts.
✝️ Dr. Considine holds a PhD in sociology from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, an MSc Lond. in international relations from @RoyalHollowayUoL , @UniofLondon , and BA in international relations from @americanuniversity , in Washington, DC.
📚 Book review by @omarrasman :
In "The Humanity Of Muhammad", Professor Dr. Craig Considine makes a profound case for the PLURALISTIC views of the Arabian Prophet, taking into consideration the evidence based on the stories rooted within Islamic history and tradition itself.
Some of these include:
i) The First Hijrah (migration) of the Muslim refugees to the Christian Kingdom of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 615 CE.
ii) The formation of the Constitution of Medina, where Jews, Christians, Muslims, and friendly Arab Pagans all made up one Ummah (community).
iii) The Prophet's Covenant with the Christian Monks of Mount Sinai.
iv) The Prophet's active engagement in theological dialogue and discussions with the Christians of Najran, including inviting them to pray at his mosque in Medina.
While these stories of interaction between the two faith communities are not new, the author argues that they are often pushed aside or glossed over.
Considine shakes his readers to the core by reminding all that the "clash of civilizations" narrative is a myth. Rather, there has always been a "dialogue of civilizations" from the very outset of the Prophet's ministry continuing all the way up to present time.
The author makes his intentions behind the book very clear: to build stronger bridges of understanding and peace between Christians and Muslims, to uplift the common humanity, and to defend the honor of the Prophet Muhammad.
Given this noble intention as well as his own prolific contribution to the field of interfaith dialogue and interreligious studies, this makes "The Humanity Of Muhammad" an invaluable book to have on any respected bookshelf.
As such, it is rightly deserving of full marks.
My rating: 5/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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