Living Together in Bagdad: Muslim-Christian Relations in Abbasid and Contemporary Times
Sidney H. Griffith
Sidney H. Griffith is a professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is a leading scholar of the historical and contemporary situation in Arabic-speaking Christianity and an advocate for inter-religious dialogue. His recent volume, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (2008), illuminates the vigorous intellectual legacy of Christians living under Muslim rule, writing in Arabic and using the idioms of Islam.