F. E Peters

"Winner of the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" F. E. Peters is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and History at New York University. His books include Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and The Children of Abraham (all Princeton). The world's three great monotheistic...

F. E. Peters is Professor of History, Religion, and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University and past chair of those departments. His books include The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and the two-volume The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition (all Princeton). The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam,...

"F. E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on a new and critical urgency." "Peters traces the three faiths from the sixth century B.C. when the Jews...

Presents an overview of the common bonds and historical differences among Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Explores the basic historical perspectives of the three religions and examines the three belief systems and their influence on each other and the modern world.