Margins of Islam

• Islam is a kaleidoscope of expressions shaped by different cultures. Local spiritisms flavor people's connections with the supernatural. Political histories and ideologies carve out other emphases. And all of these patterns are in flux, since change never stops. Lifelong learning is required from those who want to understand Islam. This book presents diverse Muslim lifestyles and worldviews in a readable, accessible, interesting form. Beyond description, authors explore particular bridges for communicating the gospel in various unique contexts. For updating and expanding one's knowledge, for interacting with creative minds, and for general enrichment, this book is a treasure.

  — Miriam Adeney, PhD, associate professor of world Christian studies, Seattle Pacific Universityauthor, Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity

• Water is H2O. But for the scuba diver, or surfer or marine biologist, it is much more. Is Islam confined to its creed and dogma? Those who swim in its waters experience it as much more. The authors invite us to dive among the coral reefs of Islam, observe its rich colors and bio-diversity, and feel the force of its currents and breakers. Rather than reducing Islam to a system of beliefs, they urge us towards incarnation—the risky venture of getting to know Muslims. Hybridity and liminality are the new buzz-words, but since its inception, Islam has intermingled with worldviews and cultures around the globe. This volume patiently unveils that reality, inviting Jesus-followers to encounter Muslims where they live, as they live. Thanks to Farah and Daniels for confronting us with the diversity of global Islam and implications for Christians who engage with it.

  — Mike Kuhn, PhD, assistant professor, Arab Baptist Theological Seminaryauthor of Fresh Vision for the Muslim World

• I so enjoyed Margins of Islam. With numerous missiological insights in each article, this book is a bounty of practical wisdom. It challenges “reductionist” views—both of the gospel and of ministry to Muslims. Praise God for this crucial contribution to the global conversation on ministry in the Muslim context.

  — Werner Mischke, DD, author of The Global Gospel

• As long as Muslims are outside of saving faith in Jesus Christ, there is need for a flow of writings on how to reach them. In recent years there have been a plethora of books written on the topic. “Why another?” some skeptically may ask. Because this collaborative volume brings to us both balance and up-to-date cutting edge missiological observations on the world of Islam in a fresh way. This book will quickly become a standard textbook for understanding the varied dynamics of this non-monolithic religion.

  — Marvin J. Newell, DMiss, senior vice president of Missio Nexusyears of service among Muslim-majority peoples in Indonesia

• Our world is comprised of a Muslim mosaic, not a monolithic Islam. The religion may have its pillars, but radically different expressions. Daniels and Farah have done a great service in the Kingdom by reminding us of this fact! Margins of Islam takes readers on a global journey revealing the multiple expressions of the Islamic faith. This book gives us solid evidence of what we have known, but seldom allowed to influence our mission practices. We no longer have any excuse to train others to reach all Muslims in the same way. This book challenges us to know our contexts and allow such insight to shape contextualized strategies and methodologies.

  — J. D. Payne, PhD, pastor, missiologist, podcast host, and bloggerauthor of Apostolic church planting

• In a marvelous tour de force, Margins of Islam exposes the widely held, but false assumption that the house of Islam is a monolithic religious entity which either resists or responds to missiological strategies. Collectively, these authors offer up case studies and rich and textured “on the field” experience which reflects the true variegated diversity of Islam. This book is contextual missiology at its finest.

  — Timothy C. Tennent, PhD, president, Asbury Theological Seminaryprofessor of World Christianity

• This text is a masterful collection of representative examples of various types of Muslims around the world and aspects of the gospel that resonate with their concerns be they Sufi, secular, ethnic, Western, youth, or other types of Muslims. Every witness to them should profit from it.

  — J. Dudley Woodberry, PhD, dean emeritus and senior professor of Islamic StudiesSchool of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary

• This book raises huge questions about how we should understand Islam, how we should teach Christians about Islam, and how we should communicate with Muslims. While it doesn’t provide neat answers, it’s a model of what’s involved in reflecting seriously on long-term Christian engagement with Muslims.

  — Colin Chapman, MPhil, Visiting lecturer, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary

• Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts sweeps away the reductionistic, yet pervasive, assumption that Islam is the same everywhere. As someone who has ministered to Turkic and Asian Muslims outside of the Arab world, this book is particularly helpful for me. Along with insightful explanations of different Islams from around the world, this volume provides a conceptual framework that will help readers understand and engage Muslims in any context.

  — Jayson Georges, author of The 3D Gospel and HonorShame.com

• Humans and human societies are complex, yet simple categories too often frame our missiology and mission approaches, missing the changing, hybrid, at times puzzling realities of life. Margins of Islam breaks this pattern, exploring diversity of expression across multiple settings in which Muslims live out their faith. Its missiological proposals offer a significant—and needed—contribution, intended for those who love and serve among Muslims, but with insights to be applied in numerous other settings.

  — David Greenlee, PhD, author and missiologistdirector of missiological research and evaluation for Operation Mobilization

Editors

• Gene Daniels
  Gene Daniels

  Gene Daniels (D Lit et Phil, University of South Africa) has been a missionary and researcher in the Muslim world for over twenty-five years. He and his family started their journey in Central Asia as church planters among unreached Muslim people groups. Daniels has authored several books and dozens of articles. Above all, he longs to someday hear the words, “Well done my good and faithful servant.”

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• Warrick Farah
  Warrick Farah

  Dr. Warrick Farah serves with One Collective as a missiologist and theological educator. He is editor of Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations (2021) as well as co-editor of Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts (2018). His research interests include Muslim Studies, Frontier Missiology, Integral Mission, and Church Planting Movements. 
  
  He has published in journals such as EMQ, Missiology, IJFM, Global Missiology, and the Great Commission Research Journal. Warrick is the founder and a facilitator of the Motus Dei Network (https://MotusDei.Network) and is a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
  

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