The Islamic Interfaith Initiative : no fear shall be upon them

When ISIS reared its ugly head in the last decade, God had already prepared a â oevaccineâ against the contagion of extremism that created it: the re-discovery of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Peoples of the Book, which firmly place the actions of groups like ISIS under the curse of God and His Prophet. This was largely due to the exhaustive scholarship of Dr John Andrew Morrow, leading to the publication in 2013 of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World. Not only was this a scholarly triumph, but it also inaugurated an international, interfaith movement throughout the Muslim world known as the Covenants Initiative, which culminated in the acquittal of the Christian woman Asia Bibi on charges of blasphemy by the Pakistani Supreme Court in 2018. The book was quoted by the justices in their decision. This volume of speeches, articles and interviews is a chronicle of the first, activist phase of the Covenants Initiative, proving that socially committed scholarship is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Dedication 6 Epigraph 7 Table of Contents 8 Endorsements 14 Acknowledgments 18 Conventions 19 Intellectual and Spiritual Evolution 20 Foreword by Charles Upton 21 Preface 35 Chapter 1 36 Chapter 2 40 Chapter 3 49 Chapter 4 60 Chapter 5 62 Chapter 6 69 Chapter 7 70 Chapter 8 72 Chapter 9 77 Chapter 10 85 Chapter 11 90 Chapter 12 92 Chapter 13 99 Chapter 14 103 Chapter 15 110 Chapter 16 116 Chapter 17 119 Chapter 18 121 Chapter 19 127 Chapter 20 130 Chapter 21 133 Chapter 22 137 Chapter 23 139 Chapter 24 147 Chapter 25 153 Chapter 26 156 Chapter 27 165 Chapter 28 168 Chapter 29 171 Chapter 30 175 Chapter 31 177 Chapter 32 179 Chapter 33 183 Chapter 34 186 Chapter 35 192 Chapter 36 199 Chapter 37 210 Chapter 38 212 Chapter 39 220 Chapter 40 229 Chapter 41 233 Chapter 42 246 Chapter 43 272 Chapter 44 275 Chapter 45 280 Chapter 46 289 Chapter 47 300 Chapter 48 304 Chapter 49 308 Chapter 50 313 Chapter 51 319 Chapter 52 324 Chapter 53 334 Chapter 54 337 Chapter 55 339 Chapter 56 344 Chapter 57 349 Chapter 58 351 Chapter 59 356 Chapter 60 359 Chapter 61 373 Chapter 62 375 Chapter 63 381 Chapter 64 432 Chapter 65 438 Chapter 66 441 Appendix 1 453 Appendix 2 454 Works Cited 456 Permissions 469 Index 472 11