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    Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time: The Primary Documents
    Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time: The Primary Documents
    Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time: The Primary Documents
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    Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time: The Primary Documents

    By Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah, John Andrew Morrow and Charles Upton

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    It is a blessing, a warning, and a sign that these Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time have resurfaced at this particular moment in history. Renewed by caliphs and sultans, supported by scores of fatwas, and accepted as law for nearly 1400 years, these documents were common knowledge to educated Muslims and Christians until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, after which they virtually disappeared from collective consciousness. Their rediscovery will certainly open a new field in both Islamic Studies and interfaith relations. As the written words of the Prophet Muhammad himself, peace and blessings be upon him, and a central part of the Sunnah, they should sit side by side with the Qur'an in both mosque and home. If Muslims are ever to recover the reality of Islam and undergo a collective awakening, these covenants of hope will play a major part in that restoration. Those wishing to familiarize themselves with Dr. Morrow's exhaustive arguments supporting the authenticity of these Covenants should refer to The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (Angelico, 2013).

    "The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World, by Dr. John Andrew Morrow ... is a very interesting and crucial work."--Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem

    "An enlightening reference that brilliantly sheds light on the glorious and magnificent spirit of Islam as epitomized by the Prophet Muhammad."--Dr. Bouchra Belgaid, University Mohamed I

    "This is one of the most important projects related to Christian-Muslim relations in recent decades."--Zachary Markwith, Graduate Theological Union

    "The Holy Council of the Fathers at Saint Catherine's Monastery expresses sympathy for your work."--Father Justin of Sinai

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCovenants Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2015
    ISBN9781621381099
    Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time: The Primary Documents
    Author

    Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah

    John Andrew Morrow has served as a faculty member and administrator at numerous colleges and universities, and has authored and edited many books, including the Encyclopedia of Islamic Herbal Medicine (McFarland, 2011), Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), and Islamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism (McFarland, 2013).

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      Six Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of His Time - Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah

      SIX COVENANTS

      OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

      WITH THE CHRISTIANS OF HIS TIME

      THE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

      SIX

      COVENANTS

      of the

      Prophet Muhammad

      with the

      Christians of His Time

      THE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

      Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah

      Editor

      John Andrew Morrow

      Foreword

      Charles Upton

      First published by Covenants Press,

      an imprint of Angelico Press, 2015

      © John Andrew Morrow 2015

      Foreword © Charles Upton 2015

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission

      For information, address:

      Angelico Press / Sophia Perennis

      info@angelicopress.com

      See also www.covenantsoftheprophet.com

      and www.johnandrewmorrow.com

      978-1-62138-002-3 pb

      978-1-62138-109-9 ebook

      Cover image: Turkish language copy of the Achtiname or Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Monks of Mount Sinai, from 1638 (by permission of St. Catherine’s Monastery, Egypt)

      Cover Design: Michael Schrauzer

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Monks of Mount Sinai

      Chapter 2: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of Persia

      Chapter 3: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of Najran

      Chapter 4: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (Mount Carmel Manuscript)

      Chapter 5: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (Cairo Manuscript)

      Chapter 6: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Assyrian Christians

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

      Endorsements

      The Covenants Initiative

      Signatories

      Map of the Sinai

      Foreword

      by

      Charles Upton

      The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, was sent by Allah not only to Muslims; he was sent as a mercy to the whole world [21:107]. Those who responded to his message or made peace with him he befriended and protected; those who actively opposed his message, he himself opposed.

      The two foundational sources of the Islamic tradition have always been the Holy Qur’an—the direct Word of Allah as revealed to Muhammad—and the prophetic hadith literature, the record of the sayings of Muhammad as remembered by his family, his close companions, and others who had been in his presence and heard his words. (The tradition of sirah or prophetic biography is also important, but it has never held the same pre-eminent position as these two.) When, after the Prophet’s death, his wife ‘A’ishah was asked what his character was like, she answered: It was exactly like the Qur’an [Ahmad].

      In October of 2013 a book appeared by Dr. John Andrew Morrow—Ilyas ‘Abd al-‘Alim Islam—entitled The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World. This work spearheaded the re-emergence of a third foundational source for Islam, one that is entirely in line with the first two: the written works composed by the Prophet himself during his lifetime. These documents, while they were known to scholars for many centuries, and accepted as law by Muslim leaders for over a thousand years, have been largely neglected by both traditional Muslim and modern western scholarship, and are virtually unknown to most believers. The present book contains the texts of six of them: The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Monks of Mount Sinai; The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of Persia; The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (in two versions); The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of Najran; and The Covenant of the Prophet Muhammad with the Assyrian Christians.

      These covenants (or treaties) were re-discovered by Dr. Morrow in obscure monasteries and libraries and books long out-of-print. He newly-translated some of them, and also provided powerful arguments for their validity, which appear in The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World. (Subsequent research, yet to be published, has only confirmed his conclusions.) These covenants uniformly command Muslims not to attack peaceful Christian communities, rob them, stop churches from being repaired, tear down churches to build mosques, prevent their Christian wives from going to church and taking spiritual direction from Christian priests and elders, etc. On the contrary, the Prophet commands Muslims to actively protect these communities until the coming of the Hour.

      Through the publication of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World, Dr. Morrow has opened up the world of the Prophet and his contemporaries as few have done before him. Who knew that, before the Crusades, Muslims on the hajj visited Christian and Jewish sacred sites on their way to Mecca? Who knew that, in the time of the Prophet, Christians as well as Muslims were called by the title al-mu’minin, the faithful? Who knew that Christian knights and warriors sometimes fought side-by-side with the armies of Islam? Who knew that even Crusaders were given safe-conduct by Muslim authorities to make pilgrimages to the Christian holy sites controlled by Islam?

      Dr. Morrow makes a compelling case that the original intent of Muhammad was not to create a strictly Muslim state, but rather a confederation of the Peoples of the Book. Muslims, as the founders of this confederation, would retain their pre-eminence, but all the peoples

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