The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the world

With painstaking effort and much dedication invested in this groundbreakingwork, John Andrew Morrow will surely manage to attract the attention of Islamicstudies students and specialists. Not only is the topic novel, but surelythe approach and method are new as well. Indeed, The Covenants of theProphet Muhammad with the Christians of the World is a genuine call for reconsideringthe relationship among the three revealed Abrahamic faiths, which is often viewed by some quarters with vested interests through the foggy lensesof suspicion and animosity, if not of utter aggressive hostility, especially thesedays. The author’s arguments stem from various perspectives ranging fromIslamic jurisprudence to political science, economics, sociology, ethics, andleadership studies. He defends the covenants written to various groups ofChristians, be they living inside the Arabian Peninsula (the Monks of Sinai,the Christians of Najran), Persia, or the world at large, as being genuine documentsemanating from Prophet Muhammad himself, who assumed the responsibilityof protecting these groups and pledged that his followers woulddo so until the last day: “This must not be violated or altered until the hour[of the Resurrection] and the end of the world” (p. 236) ...