David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph

Let me begin by expressing my thanks to al-Azhar University, to the Grand Imam, Sheikh Ṭanṭāwī, to the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Al-Tayyeb, to the hard-working staff of