Same Words – Same Meanings?
Islam as Theological Challenge

Contents:

• Editorial
• Islam as Theological Challenge (Part 1) – On Jesus Christ’s Relationship
  to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament and in the Qur’ān (Heiko Wenzel)
• The Language of Love in Qur’ān and Gospel (Part 1) (Gordon Nickel)
• Book review

The Invitation to Islam (Daʿwa) and Dialogue in the 21st Century

Contents:

• Editorial
• Is Dialogue a One-Way Street? The Hostile Image of Christianity in the Context of Modern Muslim Daʿwa Initiatives (Johannes Kandel)
• The Use of Sūra 3:64 in Interfaith Appeals: Dialogue or Daʿwa? (Gordon Nickel)
• Book Review

PDF: Islam und christlicher Glaube Nr. 2/2015 (15. Jg.)

The “Islamic State” and the Key Questions in the Jihad Debate

Contents:

• Editorial
• The Middle East – quo vadis? The emergence and ideology of “Islamic State” (IS) in Iraq and Syria (Christine Schirrmacher)
• Terror’s ideological Seed – Key Questions in the Islamic
  Jihad Debate (Carsten Polanz)
• Book Review

Freedom of Religion – A Human Right

Contents

• Editorial
• Freedom of Religion and European Identity (Thomas Schirrmacher)
• Apostasy from Islam as seen by Contemporary Muslim Theologians (Christine Schirrmacher)
• Book Review

God and Man in Bible and Quran

Contents:

• Editorial
• The Image of God in Christianity and Islam (Boris Paschke)
• Mankind in Koran and Bible (Carsten Polanz)
• Salafi Text from the Internet
• Book Review

The Appeal of Salafism

Contents:

• Editorial
• Wahhabism and Salafism – The Search for the Genuine and Original Islam of the “Golden Age” (Carsten Polanz)
• Pathways to Radicalization among Muslims in Europe (Christine Schirrmacher)
• Book Review

Islam and Democracy –
Minorities in Islamic Societies

Contents:

• Liebe Leser / Editorial
• The Relationship
  between Islam and Democracy (Christine Schirrmacher)
• Religious Minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Petra Uphoff)
• Fatwa from the Internet (Daniel Hecker)

• Book Reviews