Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts
Ebook
“A global journey revealing multiple expressions of the Islamic faith… We no longer have any excuse to train others to reach all Muslims in the same way.”—J. D. Payne What do you do when “Islam” does not adequately describe the Muslims you know? Margins of Islam brings together a stellar collection of experienced missionary scholar-practitioners who explain their own approaches to a diversity of Muslims across the world. Each chapter grapples with a context that is significantly different from the way Islam is traditionally presented in mission texts. These crucial differences may be theological, socio-political, ethnic, or a specific variation of Islam in a context— but they all shape the way we do mission. This book will help you discover Islam as a lived experience in various settings and equip you to engage Muslims in any context, including your own.
Contributors
Foreword
David Garrison
Introduction
Gene Daniels
PART 1: CONCEPTUALIZING Islam
Chapter 1—Who Represents Islam?
Evelyne A. Reisacher
Chapter 2—How Muslims Shape and Use Islam: Towards a Missiological Understanding
Warrick Farah
PART 2: ENGAGING Muslims
Chapter 3—The Donkey and the Straw: Challenges and Opportunities in Reaching South Asian Sufis with the Gospel
Kevin Higgins
Chapter 4—Secular Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ted Esler
Chapter 5—Egalité, Fraternité, and Cous-Cous: Ministry to Muslims in the Context of a Resurgent Islam and French Laïcité
Rick Kronk
Chapter 6—Biblical Approaches to the Nurcu Gülen Movement in Turkey
Yakup Korkmaz
Chapter 7—Magical Mystical Muslims: Sufi-Oriented Islam and African Traditional Religion
Robin Dale Hadaway
Chapter 8—Ordinary Muslims in Pakistan and the Gospel
Warren Larson
Chapter 9—Ministry to Hui Muslims in China: An Approach to Dual-Layered Cultural Settings
Enoch Jinsik Kim
Chapter 10—Context as Flypaper: The Island of Java in Indonesia
Michael A. Kilgore
Chapter 11—Liberating Liminality: Mission in the North African Berber Context
Patrick Brittenden
Chapter 12—Russified Muslims of the Former Soviet Union
Gene Daniels
Chapter 13—The Queen’s Muslims? Muslim Identities in the UK
Phil Rawlings
Chapter 14—In the Shadow of a Buddhist Temple: Muslims in Thailand
Alan Johnson
Chapter 15—Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin: Muslims in Northwestern China
CG Gordon
Chapter 16—Muslim Youth in a Glocal World
Arthur Brown
PART 3: REFRAMING MISSIOLOGY
Chapter 17—Adaptive Missiological Engagement with Islamic Contexts
Warrick Farah
Chapter 18—Conclusion: Learning from the Margins
Gene Daniels
Here—at last!—is a book that takes seriously the bewildering diversity among Muslims worldwide and explores responsibly the missiological implications of these diverse contexts. This is a terrific book which deserves a wide readership.
-Harold Netland, PhD professor of philosophy of religion and intercultural studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Margins of Islam exposes the widely held, but false assumption that the house of Islam is a monolithic religious entity which either resists or responds to missiological strategies. Collectively, these authors offer up case studies and “on the field” experience which reflects the true variegated diversity of Islam.
-Timothy C. Tennent, PhD president and professor of World Christianity, Asbury Theological Seminary
This book raises huge questions about how we should understand Islam, how we should teach Christians about Islam, and how we should communicate with Muslims. While it doesn't provide neat answers, it's a model of what's involved in reflecting seriously on long-term Christian engagement with Muslims.
-Colin Chapman, MPhil visiting lecturer, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts
- Authors: Gene Daniels, Warrick Farah
- Publisher: William Carey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780878080687, 9780878080663, 087808066X, 0878080686
- Resource ID: LLS:9780878080687
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-20T01:49:04Z
Dr. Warrick Farah serves with One Collective as a missiologist and theological educator. He is editor of Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations (2021) as well as co-editor of Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts (2018). His research interests include Muslim Studies, Frontier Missiology, Integral Mission, and Church Planting Movements.
He has published in journals such as EMQ, Missiology, IJFM, Global Missiology, and the Great Commission Research Journal. Warrick is the founder and a facilitator of the Motus Dei Network (https://MotusDei.Network) and is a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
Gene Daniels (PhD, University of South Africa) has over thirty-five years of experience in various forms of Christian ministry. He and his family moved to Central Asia in 1997 and served for twelve years as church planters among unreached Muslim people groups. Since that time, he continued to serve as a mission researcher, trainer, and writer, with a specialty in qualitative research in Muslim contexts. Daniels is the author of many articles and several books.