This volume is a collection of Ismail al-Faruqi's articles written over a span of two decades. They deal directly with Islam and other faiths, (Christianity and Judaism in particular). The book provides a good cross-section of al-Faruqi's contribution to the study of comparative religion and covers a wide spectrum of inter-religious issues including commonality and differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, Muslim-non-Muslim relations, and the issue of Mission and Da'wah.

About the Author:
Ismail al-Faruqi was born in 1921 in Jaffa, Palestine. He first studied in Arabic in the local mosque, and then in French in a convent school. At the age of twenty-four, he became governor of Galilee. When the state of Israel was formed, he moved to Lebanon where he studied at the American University of Beirut, and later did his Masters degree at Harvard, and his Ph.D. in Western philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal, and became widely recognized as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He was professor of religion at Temple University, where he founded and chaired the Islamic Studies program. He and his wife, Lamya, were murdered in their home on May 27, 1986.