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One Hundred Twenty‐Five Years of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary
Author(s) -
Salem Feryal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the muslim world
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1478-1913
pISSN - 0027-4909
DOI - 10.1111/muwo.12243
Subject(s) - islam , citation , theological seminary , theology , center (category theory) , library science , religious studies , sociology , classics , history , philosophy , computer science , chemistry , crystallography
T he study of Islam at Hartford Seminary has a distinctive history that spans well over a century. Until about forty years ago, Hartford Seminary was one of the few graduate level institutions in North America dedicated to the study of Islam at the Ph.D. level. This discipline also has been developed and redefined several times over the next century as the Seminary itself responded to changing times and shifts in mission. The study of Islam at Hartford Seminary can be divided into three phases; namely that of mission oriented, followed by a model of Christian engagement with Islam and finally its current form of a reciprocal approach of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian relations. Each of these three phases will be highlighted in this study.

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