Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims

James L. Heft (ed.); Reuven Firestone (ed.); Omid Safi (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0199769311 / ISBN 13: 9780199769315

Published by Oxford University Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199769311
• ISBN 13: 9780199769315
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 2.083W x 15.24H x 23.495D centimeters 2.083 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 23.495 centimeters depth
• Weight: 522 grams
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Synopsis

Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Jews and also with Muslims, made all the more necessary by the terrorist attacks of September 11. The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies brought together an international group of sixteen Jewish, Catholic and Muslim scholars to carry on an important theological exploration of the theme of ''learned ignorance.''

About the Author

James L. Heft, S. M., is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies. He is also a member of the Society of Mary (Marianists). In 2006, he became the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion. Along with three other leaders in Catholic higher education, he founded in 1996 Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice. He has published and edited twelve books and written over 160 articles and book chapters.

Reuven Firestone is professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and founding co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. His published works include Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims, and Jews, Christians, Muslims in Dialogue: A Practical Handbook.

Omid Safi is the Chair for the Study of Islam at the American Academy of Religion. A leading Muslim public intellectual in America, he is a professor of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US. He is the author of The Politics of Knowledge Premodern Islam and Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters.