Th is is not a book about Muḥammad. Or, at least, this is not a book about Muḥammad per se. Instead, I want to tell the stories of what Christians thought about the Prophet Muḥammad throughout the course of fifteen centuries of Christian–Muslim encounters. From the eighth century all the way through to the twenty-first, what did Christians say about Muḥammad’s life and work? Did they think he was a prophet and God’s Final Messenger? If so, then what did they think that would mean for Christianity? If not, then what was he, exactly, for Christians? Did they need to account for his presence in history and in the context of religious claims? Th is book is about the Christian encounter with the idea of Muḥammad and how Christians tried to interpret his prophethood, affi rm it to varying degrees or disregard it completely.
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