Jesus and the Muslim: An Exploration

Cragg's book is an excellent work for the student seeking greater interaction and understanding on the congruence and overlap of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. His integration of Arabic literature into his research was a great plus. However, the 300 page, small-print book contains a writing style that makes it difficult to understand and digest for the average reader. If you are into in-depth didactic study, this might be a good book for you.

This fine book written by a credible scholar carefully catalogues pivotal points of discussion. Dialogue between Christianity and Islam can exist in part because so much of the Quran contains discussion of biblical characters. But how Jesus, for example, is described in Islamic literature is not consistent with the picture found in canonical biblical texts. This contrast is well presented by Cragg, and though the book is written in a somewhat pedantic "Oxford English" style, it is still quite rewarding.