Muslims and Christians constitute nearly sixty-percent of religious
believers. Yet Muslims and Christians remain strangers to one another hidden
behind caricatures of ‘the Muslim as terrorist,' ‘the Christian as crusader.'
Here the reader will encounter a more humane face of believers in each
tradition as each writer explores in his own voice the hope for a new era
in Muslim-Christian relations.
DR. M. DARROL BRYANT is Professor of Religion and Culture at Renison College, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bryant is author/editor of many articles, papers, and books in religion, including Huston Smith: Essays on World Religion, The Many Faces of Religion and Society, The Religions of Man, and Interreligious Dialogue: Voices from a New Frontier.
DR. SYED A. ALI was the founding Director of the Indian Institute of Islamic Studies. He remained its director for more than 30 years. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Hamdard University in New Delhi, India. He has maintained an active scholarly career and has published many articles in the areas of Islamic studies, Persian and Sufi poetry, and the dialogue of religions. His writings have appeared in such journals as Hamdard Islamicus and Dialogue and Alliance. He has lectured throughout the Muslim world and in universities in Canada and the United States of America.