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1	Children of Abraham: Judaism/Christianity/Islam more books like this by Francis E Peters add to wishlist F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic "The Children of Abraham" for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Reader on Classical Islam more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist A scholar explores integrated legal, social, spiritual, and historical threads that together create the Islamic tradition. see all copies from $19.99! new only from $34.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and Muslims not only worshipped the same God, but shared aspirations, operated in the same social and economic ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $12.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related - and competitive - religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist Firsthand accounts of the ritual journey to Mecca. see all copies from $5.25! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Harvest of Hellenism more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $2.32! first editions
7	Ours, the Making and Unmaking of a Jesuit more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist The Jesuits are that group of clerics so deeply imbedded in the dreams and nightmares of the Catholic Church and in the history of the world. Sometimes saints and sometimes energetic and devious schemers, the Jesuits have educated and trained most of the Catholic intellectuals of America and Europe for the last four hundred years. James Joyce was ... see all copies from $4.53! new only from $55.34! \| first editions
8	Greek philosophical terms; a historical lexicon more books like this by F. E. Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $13.40! new only from $22.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem appeals to readers interested in this city's dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthand accounts, we see Jerusalem as it appeared through the centuries to a fascinating variety of observers--Jews, Christians, Muslims, and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. The book unites these moving ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $80.00! \| first editions
10	The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I: The Peoples of God more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book - an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these ... see all copies from $4.92! new only from $4.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims Andprophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginning of Modern Times more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist This portrayal of Jerusalem through a collection of first-hand accounts, shows the reader how Jerusalem appeared through the centuries to a variety of observers - Jews, Christians, Muslims and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. see all copies from $16.11! new only from $39.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict: Two-Volume Slipcase Set more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book - a comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions - seeks not so ... see all copies from $49.50!
13	The Two Hundred Dollar Look by F. E. Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Peoples of God: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition more books like this by Francis E Peters add to wishlist The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book - a comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions - seeks not so ... see all copies from $4.71! new only from $82.50! \| first editions
15 view cover	Ger-Adelheit Von Rastenberg more books like this by George F Peters (Translator), Eleonore Thon, Karin A Wurst (Editor) add to wishlist When the knight Adelbert leaves his beloved Adelheit for the Crusades, her father arranges for her to marry the rich and powerful Robert von Rastenberg, whom she does not love. Several years later, Adelheit encounters her former lover. Purporting to chronicle historical events, Eleonore Thon's play reveals more about the changing roles of women at ... see all copies from $2.89! new only from $6.59! \| SVS
16 view cover	Muhammad and Origs Islam more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $11.28! new only from $20.52! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Adelheit Von Rastenberg: An English Translator more books like this by George F Peters (Translator), Eleonore Thon add to wishlist When Adelbert leaves his beloved Adelheit for the Crusades, her father arranges for her to marry the rich and powerful Robert von Rastenberg, whom she does not love. Thon's play reveals more about the changing roles of women at the dawn of the Industrial Age than it does about knightly conduct in the German Middle Ages. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	Allah's Commonwealth: A History of Islam in the Near East, 600-1100 A.D more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $49.90! \| first editions
19	Ours: Making and Unmaking more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $5.57!
20 view cover	The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist This volume aims to examine the background to the rise of Islam. The opening essays consider the broad context of nomad-sedentary relations in the Near East, and move on to focus on the Arabian peninsula and the history of the Arab peoples. Following papers set out the political and economic structures of the pre-Islamic period, and concentrate on ... see all copies from $120.90! new only from $153.41!
21	Jerusalem and Mecca Jerusalem and Mecca: The Typology of the Holy City in the Near East the Typology of the Holy City in the Near East more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $56.95!
22 view cover	Parallel Computing 99 more books like this by E D'Hollander (Editor), G R Joubert (Editor), F J Peters (Editor) add to wishlist The 21st century should see the increased use of parallel computing technologies at all levels of mainstream computing. This volume provides a retrospective view of what has been achieved in the parallel computing field during the last three decades of the 20th century, as well sa a prospective view of expected future developments. see all copies from $74.79! new only from $278.08!
23 view cover	Muhammad and the Origins of Islam more books like this by F. E. Peters add to wishlist 'Peters writes very well. The scholarship is excellent, and the book fills a gap in the available material. There are several lives of the Prophet, but none that does what this one does. Most are written to prove a particular thesis about the nature of the Prophet's career. This one simply puts down what can be known with any certainty about the ... see all copies from $15.00!
24 view cover	Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land more books like this by F E Peters add to wishlist For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities - and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it, and countless pilgrims and travellers - many of them European Christians in disguise - have left behind lively and well-publicized accounts of life in Mecca and its associated shrine-city ... see all copies from $48.43! new only from $84.99! \| first editions
25	Jerusalem: City of God, City of Fire (Portable Professor: World History) by F.E. Peters add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00!

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