Early Quakers and Islam

by Justin J. Meggitt

Early Quaker encounters with Muslims in the seventeenth century helped generate some of the most distinctive and, at times, sympathetic Christian responses to Islam found in the early modern era. Texts such as George Fox's To the Great Turk (1680), in which he engaged in extensive, constructive exegesis of the Qur'an, demonstrate a conception of Islam and Muslims that disrupts many prevailing assumptions of the period. Some responses are all the more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498291945
• ISBN13: 9781498291941
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"