The attacks on the United States in September 2001 and all that has flowed from them have increased the urgency for informed dialogue between Christians and Muslims. The Muslim Jesus is a significant contribution to this task. It presents, in English translation, 303 sayings or stories of Jesus found within Arabic Islamic literature and assembled together by Tarif Khalidi, formerly Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, and now holding the Sheikh Zahed Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. Dating from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, they range from sayings of just a few sentences to stories of several hundred words. This is not the first attempt to produce such a collection. Earlier examples include those by Miguel Asin y Palacios (in Patrologia
This article explores the development of domestic devotion in the Georgian Church of England through an examination of the manuals of prayer produced and circulated for both personal and family use throughout the eighteenth century. Alongside more well-known works, including Edmund Gibson’s Family Devotion and Robert Nelson’s Companion for the Festivals and Fasts, it pays attention to the diverse material provided for private and household devotion and its relationship to The Book of Common Prayer. The article highlights the key themes that were expressed through this literature, the spirituality that it fostered, and the sources on which it drew. It reveals how greater awareness of this material can deepen our understanding of how Georgian Anglicans prayed and what they were encouraged to pray for.
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