1 Harvie M. Conn, "Missionary Myths About Islam," Muslim World Pulse, VI (Sept. 1977), 9.
2 Karl G. Pfander, The Mizanu'l Haqq (Balance of Truth), revised & enlarged by W.St.C. Tisdall (London: Religious Tract Soc., 1910), 370 pp.
3 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I, trans. by A.C. Pegis (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1955), p. 62.
4 William St. C. Tisdall, The Sources of Islam, trans. & abridged by Sir Wm. Muir (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1910, reprint undated), 102 pp.
5 Conn, loc. cit.
6 Pfander, op. cit., p. 101-125.
7 H. Spencer, Islam and the Gospel of God (Madras,: S.P.C.K., 1956), p. ix.
8 Mohamed F. Jamali, Letters On Islam (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 31ff.
9 Ibid., p. 33.
10 See also Musa al-Sadre, "Truth, Revelation and Obedience," Christian-Muslim Dialogue (Geneva: W.C.C. Publications, 1973), pp. 44-46.
11 Spencer, op. cit., pp. 2, 16, 38ff.
12 Ibid., p. 6.
13 Ibid., p. 7.
14 Newell S. Booth, "The Historical and the Non-Historical In Islam," The Muslim World, LX (April 1970), 114-116.
15 Cf. J. H. Bavinck, The Church Between Temple And Mosque (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans [1966]), pp. 130, 143.
16 Spencer, loc. cit.
17 Ibid., p. 28.
18 Ibid., pp. 76-82.
19 Bavinck, op. cit. pp. 118-129.
20 Isma`il R. al-Faruqi, "On the Nature of Islamic Da`wah," International Review of Missions, LXV (Oct 1976), 392ff.
21 I.R. al-Faruqi, "A Comparison of the Islamic and Christian Approaches to Hebrew Scripture," Journal of Bible and Religion, XXXI (1963), 291.
22 Al-Faruqi, "On the Nature of Islamic Da`wah," I.R.M., LXV (Oct. '76), 395.
23 Al-Faruqi. "A Comparison of the Islamic and Christian Approaches to Hebrew Scripture," J.B.R., XXXI (1963), 291-292.
24 Mohamed al-Nowaihi, "The Religion of Islam," International Review of Missions, LXV (April 1976), 217. Al-Faruqi, "On the Nature of Islamic Da`wah," I.R.M., LXV (Oct. '76), 399-405.
25 J.H. Bavinck, Introduction to the Science of Missions, trans. by D. H. Freeman (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1960), p. 222.
26 Sulaiman Mufassir, Jesus In the Qur'an (Plainfield, Ind.; Muslim Students Assoc. 1972), pp. 2-11.
27 Kenneth Cragg, The Call of the Minaret, (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1964), pp. 33, 140-144.
28 Al-Faruqi, "On the Nature of Islamic Da`wah," I.R.M., LXV (Oct. '76), 393, 398ff.
29 Al-Nowaihi, op. cit., p. 216ff.
30 Spencer, op. cit., pp. 76-82.
31 Ibid., pp. 67-74.
32 Ibid., pp. 7f.
33 See Pfander, op. cit., pp. 246-249 for a refutation.
34 Arthur Jeffery, Islam: Muhammad and His Religion (N.Y.: Liberal Arts Press, 1958), pp. 126-128.
35 Al-Faruqi et al., "On the Nature of Islamic Da`wah," I.R.M., LXV (Oct. '76), 405-409.
36 Al-Faruqi, "A Comparison of the Islamic and Christian Approaches to Hebrew Scripture," J.B.R., XXXI (1963), 285-287, 290n. 20.
37 Besides the articles of al-Faruqi cited above, see e.g. Amir Ali, "Christianity From the Islamic Standpoint," Christianity: Some Non-Christian Appraisals, ed. by D. W. McKain (N.Y.: McGraw Hill, 1964), pp. 225-241.
Al-Faruqi's distinction between the Christian and Muslim views of revelation is similar to that given here, but with a significant difference in the interpretation of the Christian view. According to him, in Christianity, revelation is an "event", whereas in Islam it is an "idea". This difference derives from the fact that the "Christian" view he presents is that of Modern theology, with which he is dialoguing, which rejects the identification of the Bible with revelation. On the other hand, Evangelical theology insists that revelation is both event and idea, both historical and scriptural, the latter being the divinely inspired record and interpretation of the former. The terms used here were chosen to reflect the difference between the two views, both as concerns the nature and the mode of revelation. This difference is also reflected in the Arabic words used in the two communities to express the idea "Word of God"; Muslims use the concrete noun kalam - the "speaking" or the "utterance" of God; Christians use the abstract noun kalimah - the "Word" in the sense of the "message" of God.