• List of Contributors Foreword by Thomas E. Burman: Nicholas of Cusa and Peter the Venerable's Request Editors' Introduction
• Part I: Cusanus and Islam Morimichi Watanabe: Cusanus, Islam, and Religious Tolerance Walter Andreas Euler: A Critical Survey of Cusanus's Writings on Islam Pim Valkenberg: Una Religio in Rituum Varietate: Religious Pluralism, the Qur'an, and Nicholas of Cusa Knut Alfsvag: Divine Difference and Religious Unity: On the Relation Between De Docta Ignorantia, De Pace Fidei and Cribratio Alcorani Joshua Hollman: Reading De pace fidei Christologically: Nicholas of Cusa's Verbum Dialectic of Religious Concordance Felix Resch: The Trinity as a Challenge to Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Nicholas of Cusa's Philosophical Translation of Trinitarian Faith as a Response to Islamic Rejection
• Part II: Historical Perspectives Rita George-Tvrtkovic: Deficient Sacraments or Unifying Rites? Alan of Lille, Nicholas of Cusa, and Riccoldo da Montecroce on Muslim and Jewish Praxis Marica Costigliolo: Perspectives on Islam in Italy and Byzantium in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Jesse D. Mann: Juan de Segovia on the Superiority of Christians over Muslims: Liber de magna auctoritate episcoporum in concilio generali 10.6 Paul Richard Blum: How to Deal with Muslims? Raymond Lull and Ignatius of Loyola
• Part III: Muslim Responses to Christianity Asma Afsaruddin: The Messiah `Isa, Son of Mary: Jesus in the Islamic Tradition Sandra Toenies Keating: Revisiting the Charge of Tahrif: The Question of Supersessionism in Early Islam and the Qur'an Tamara Albertini: Ibn Hazm's and al-Ghazzali's Most Divergent Responses to Christianity: A Question of Epistemology and Hermeneutics Robert J. Dobie: Jesus in the Muslim and Christian Mystical Traditions: Ibn `Arabi and Meister Eckhart Index.
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This collection of essays explores the complex relations between Christians and Muslims at the dawn of the modern age. It begins by examining two seminal works by Nicholas of Cusa: De pace fidei, a dialogue seeking peace among world religions written after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and Cribratio Alkorani (1460-61), an attempt to confirm Gospel truths through a critical reading of the Qur'an. After considering Nicholas, his sources, and his context, the book explores a wider range of late medieval texts on Christian-Muslim relations-not only Christian writings about Islam but also Muslim responses to Christianity. The book's focus is historical, but it can also contribute to efforts at increasing Muslim-Christian understanding today.
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• Lavater's dedication
• Open letter to Lavater
• From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis"
• Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773
• Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar)
• From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum
• "The search for light and right"
• Mörschel's postscript
• From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism
• From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg
• From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza
• From Morning Hours
• From To Lessing's Friends
• From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes
• Introduction to translation of Psalms
• From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779
• From Light for the Path
• Selections from the Bi'ur
• On the religious legitimacy of studying logic
• An ontological proof for God's existence
• A cosmological proof for God's existence
• A proof for the immortality of the soul
• A rational foundation for ethics
• On the possibility of miracles
• On the reliability of miracles.

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much of Jerusalem, Michah Gottlieb's volume seeks to expand knowledge of Mendelssohn's thought by presenting translations of many of his other seminal writings from the German or Hebrew originals. These writings include essays, commentaries, unpublished reflections, and personal letters. Part One includes selections from the three major controversies of Mendelssohn's life, all of which involved polemical encounters with Christian thinkers. Part Two presents selections from Mendelssohn's writings on the Bible. Part Three offers texts that illuminate Mendelssohn's thoughts on a diverse range of religious topics, including God's existence, the immortality of the soul, and miracles. Designed for class adoption, the volume contains annotations and an introduction by the editor.
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• Preface - The Letters and their Authors - The Manuscripts of the Letters - The Language of the Letters - The Letter from the People of Cyprus - Al-Dimashqi's Response to the Letter from the People of Cyprus - Introduction - Sections 1-13 - Bibliography - Index.
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This volume comprises an edition and English translation of the response in Arabic made by the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi to a Letter sent to him by anonymous Christians from Cyprus. The Christian letter was also sent to al-Dimashqi's contemporary Ibn Taymiyya, and this response is thus a parallel to Ibn Taymiyya's Al-jawab al-sahih. In their Letter the Christians subtly suggest that the Qur'an supports Christian doctrines. Al-Dimashqi replies with a comprehensive series of elaborate and wide-ranging arguments that incorporate not only themes familiar from earlier polemical works but also his own original points. His response is thus an important source of information about the development of Muslim interfaith attitudes, and a significant example of polemic in the later medieval period. The edition presents the two parts of this correspondence in parallel Arabic and English versions, together with an extensive introduction, textual notes and commentary.
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