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Synopsis
For Christians, Armageddon has come to symbolize the end of the world and the triumphant return of Christ. In this work the author examines the implications of such beliefs for modern Muslims. Starting from the Bible, the Quran, and the 12th century CE Sunni Commentary of Surabadi (the oldest complete Persian Quranic commentary extant), he traces the development of these ideas in Christian evangelism and explains how they contribute to and exacerbate the present atmosphere of crisis and confrontation in the Middle East that threatens the peace and security of not only the Islamic world, but of all mankind.
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Jay R. Crook was born in upstate New York, the second son of a clergyman, but spent his formative years in the New York metropolitan area. A chance acquaintance awakened his interest in Islamic culture and civilization, and he soon embraced Islam. After completing his military service and saving some money, he traveled to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to study for a few years. He wound up spending most of his working life in the Middle East, expecially in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Hired by the Peace Corps as a field representative, he finished in 1971 as Deputy Director in the Iran program. He then enrolled in the Doctoral Program of Persian Literature for Foreigners at Tehran University and received his Ph.D. in 1978. His doctoral thesis was A Comparison of the Quranic Stories of Surabadi With the Bible. Much revised and expanded, it has become the core of The New Testament: an Islamic Perspective (from which this chapter on Armageddon is extracted) and its compan! ion volume The Old Testament: an Islamic Perspective. Subsequent to leaving Iran in 1980, he worked as an English teacher in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia before retiring in 1997. He now resides in the American Southwest and has translated several books from Persian into English, including Kashifi's The Royal Book of Spiritual Chivalry.
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Armageddon: An Islamic Perspective (Bible: an Islamic Perspective)
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Kazi Publications, Inc. (edition ), 2004
ISBN 10: 1567447201
ISBN 13: 9781567447200
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