Books we recommend - The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East By Kenneth Cragg

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Kenneth Cragg (8th March 1913 – 13th November 2012) was an Anglican Bishop and scholar. Ordained in 1937, his ministry took him to the Middle East. His writing focused on Christian- Muslim relations.
The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East published in 1991 examines the history of Arab Christians in the region and the tensions produced by that identity in the past and in present times.  



“Yet 'Christian' was a descriptive of Arabs centuries before Islam, and there has been a Christian Arabism, an Arab Christianity, throughout the Muslim centuries since Muhammad’s day. The Muslim dominance of Arabness, however, from the beginning brought tension and a tribulation into that Arab Christian existence under which it has labored and survived.” Kenneth Cragg. 


Where to find the book. 

Cragg, Kenneth. (1991). The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East. Westminster John Knox Press. 

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