Seeking Allah, finding Jesus : a devout Muslim encounters Christianity

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Foreword / Lee Strobel -- Introduction -- Prologue: Seeking Allah -- Part one : Called to prayer. Prayers of my fathers -- A mother's faith -- A community of four -- The perfect book -- Stories of the prophet -- Righteous through ritual prayer -- Diversity in Islam -- The path of Sharia -- Dreams of the faithful -- The month of blessing -- Part two : An ambassador for Islam. Third culture -- Muslims in the West -- Swoons and substitutions -- The Father is greater than Jesus -- Heaven's gates and hell's flames -- Treasured traditions -- Signs in the sky -- Honor and authority -- The religion of peace -- Part three : Testing the New Testament. Becoming brothers -- Opening my eyes -- Textual evolution -- Revisiting reliability -- Part four : Coming to the crux. Litmus tests -- Crucifying the swoon theory -- A Muslim at church -- Debating the resurrection -- Part five : Jesus : mortal Messiah or divine Son of God? Genetics and Jesus -- Jesus creates carpenters -- The divine Son of Man -- Paulemics and the earliest Jesus -- Part six : The case for the gospel. Tension and the Trinity -- Resonating with the Trinity -- Salvation in the balance -- Assessing the gospel -- Part seven : The truth about Muhammad. Muhammad revisited -- The picture-perfect prophet -- Veiling the violence -- Muhammad Rasul Allah? -- Part eight : The holiness of the Quran. The case for the Quran -- The Quran, science, and Bucailleism -- Hadith and the history of the Quran -- Those whom their right hands possess -- Part nine : Faith in doubt. Rationality and revelation -- The cost of embracing the cross -- I am near; seek and you shall find -- A field of crosses -- Part ten : Guided by the hand of God. Deciphering dreams -- The narrow door -- A stairway out of the mosque -- Time to mourn -- The Word speaks -- Finding Jesus -- Expanded epilogue -- Appendixes. Expert contributions -- Topical table of contents -- Are Ahmadis Muslim? : Responding to concerns about my former sect of Islam -- Sneak peek : No God but one : Allah or Jesus? -- Notes -- Glossary.