Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- A Sensitive Question -- The Status of Christology in Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Bibliographical Introduction -- Contributions from the Christian Side and from Western Scholars -- Contributions from Muslim Contexts -- Some Methodological Considerations -- 2 Christ in the Qur'an and in Hadith -- Christ in the Qur'an -- Thematic Summary of the Qur'anic References to Christ -- Thematic Studies of Qur'anic Christology -- Grammatical Problems, Literary Character and Language Structure -- The Overall Qur'anic Context -- Historical Background and External Context -- Jesus in Hadith -- Sayings Clarifying the Relation between Muhammad and Jesus -- Descriptions of Jesus' Appearance -- Foretelling of the Descent of Jesus in the Eschatological Sayings Attributed to Muhammad -- Jesus and al-Mahdi -- Mention of Specific Merits of Jesus -- Further Similarities to the New Testament Gospels -- The Understanding of 'Gospel' (Injil) -- Muhammad and Jesus in Hadith and Legend -- 3 Jesus in Muslim Legend and Qur'anic Exegesis -- Jesus in Muslim Legend and Storytelling -- Agrapha (Sayings), in Context -- The Storytelling Tradition, from Wahb to the 'Stories of the Prophets' -- Jesus in Muslim Perceptions of World History -- Questions of Christian Influences -- Classical Exegesis of the Qur'an (Tafsir) -- The Demise of Jesus and the Substitutionist Theory -- The Return of Jesus -- The Miracles of Jesus and his Virginal Conception -- 4 Jesus in Shiite Tradition -- A Shiite Jesus -- Jesus in Shiite Hadith and Tafsir -- The Brethren of Purity -- The Significance of Suffering -- 5 Jesus in Sufism -- Sufi Reception of Jesus-Sayings and Jesus-Stories -- Various Representations of Jesus in Sufism -- Jesus in Sufi 'Moralism' -- Transgressions of Orthodoxy in Search for Union with God -- Jesus in the Orthodox Sufism of al-Ghazali.

Jesus in the Theosophical System of ibn al-'Arabi -- Jesus in the Poetry and Meditative Discourses of Rumi -- Jesus in Sufi Tafsir -- Summarizing Central Features of Sufi Images of Jesus -- Jesus as the Perfect Man: A Generalizing Concept -- Jesus as Theophany: A Non-Exclusive Attribute -- Sainthood and Breath -- The Spiritual Meaning of the Miracles -- Suffering, Death, Cross -- The Mystical Perfection: Muhammad -- 6 Encounters and Confrontations: Dialogue, Apologetics, Polemics -- The Role of Christ in Early Intra-Muslim Polemics -- Christian Apologetics under Muslim Rule -- Muslim Polemics, Directed towards Submitted Christians -- The Image of Paul in Early and Medieval Islamic Polemics -- The Understanding of Jesus' Miracles -- Muslim Polemical Refutations and Sympathetic Reinterpretations in the Medieval Era -- The Claim of Tahhrif (Falsification of the Scriptures) -- Benign Reinterpretations -- Christian Polemics against Islam in the Medieval Era: Enemy Images and Attempts at Understanding -- 7 Twentieth-Century Tendencies and Discussions -- Christ in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Muslim Theology: Reinterpretation, Polemics and Dialogue -- Nineteenth-Century Beginnings: India -- The Christology of the Ahmadiyya Movement -- The Barnabas Argument -- Twentieth-Century Egyptian Theology: al-Manar and al-Azhar -- Twentieth-Century Indo-Pakistani Contributions -- Jesus in Revolutionary Iran -- Apologetic Writings for a Western Audience -- Convert Literature -- Approaches Emerging from Christian-Muslim Dialogue -- Jesus in Twentieth-Century Muslim Poetry -- From Miracle to Cross: Jesus in Modern Persian Poetry -- From Miracle to Cross: Images of Jesus in the Literatures of Pakistan -- From Miracle to Cross: Modern Arabic Poetry (and Art) -- From Miracle to Cross: Interpretations -- Christ in Egyptian Muslim Literature, from 1950 Onwards.

Christian Contributions -- Muslim Contributions -- The Symbol of the Cross: Husayn, 'Abd al-Quddus, al-Sabur, al-Nowaihi -- Christ-Biographies and Christ-Allegories: al- 'Aqqad, al-Sahhar, Uthman, Mahfuz -- Christ and Muhammad: Khalid Muhammad Khalid -- Christ, Muhammad and Human Conscience: al- 'Aqqad, 'Uthman, Husayn, Khalid -- 8 Issues of Dialogue -- Why Christology? -- Jesus and Muhammad -- Historical Jesus, Historical Muhammad -- Christ of Faith, Muhammad of Faith -- Christology, Anthropology, Theology -- Rethinking Christology in Dialogue with Islam -- Rethinking Incarnation: Generation and Procession -- Rethinking Sonship: Son of God, Servant of God -- Rethinking the Cross -- Rethinking Exclusivism: Jesus between Christianity and Islam -- Rethinking 'Christianity': Jesus-Followers between Christianity and Islam -- Christology and Human Experience: From Miracles to Cross -- Miracles in the World of Mystics: Christ, Healer of Minds -- Miracles in Folk Islam: Christ, Healer of Bodies -- The Symbol of the Cross: From Theological Rejection to Human Affirmation -- The Ethical Connection -- Human Conscience -- The Golden Rule -- Faith, Power, Non-Violence -- 'Disciplining the Soul' -- Divine Pedagogy -- Doing Theology -- Implications of Monotheism -- Reading the Signs of God -- Modes of Doing Theology -- 9 Postscript -- Knowing by Oneself, Knowing with the Other: A 'Conscientious' Dialogue between Religions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.