Dr. Jose Abraham is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. His academic work engages the intersections of religious studies, global Christianity, and postcolonial theory, with particular attention to how religious traditions are formed, interpreted, and encountered under conditions of modernity and global exchange. He received his PhD from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where his research examined socio-religious reform movements among the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, South India, during the colonial period. His doctoral dissertation was subsequently published as Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India: Socio-Political and Religious Thought of Vakkom Moulavi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Before joining Fuller, Abraham taught at United Theological College, Bangalore, India, and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an ordained minister of the Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPC) and is committed to equipping churches for biblically grounded, historically informed, and constructive engagement with Muslims and people of other faiths in both local and global contexts.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Islam as the Illiberal Mirror—Orientalism and the Protestant Construction of Islam.- Chapter 3. The Civilizing Mission: Erasing Muslim Traditions and Imposing Colonial Modernity.- Chapter 4. Islamophobia and the Postcolonial Condition: Rethinking Christian Engagement in a Liberal World Order.- Chapter 5. Beyond Essentialism: Islam as a Discursive Tradition.- Chapter 6. Embodied Traditions: Approaching Islam as a Lived Faith.- Chapter 7. Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness Among Muslims.

Dr. Jose Abraham is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. His academic work engages the intersections of religious studies, global Christianity, and postcolonial theory, with particular attention to how religious traditions are formed, interpreted, and encountered under conditions of modernity and global exchange. He received his PhD from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where his research examined socio-religious reform movements among the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, South India, during the colonial period. His doctoral dissertation was subsequently published as Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India: Socio-Political and Religious Thought of Vakkom Moulavi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Before joining Fuller, Abraham taught at United Theological College, Bangalore, India, and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an ordained minister of the Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPC) and is committed to equipping churches for biblically grounded, historically informed, and constructive engagement with Muslims and people of other faiths in both local and global contexts.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Islam as the Illiberal Mirror—Orientalism and the Protestant Construction of Islam.- Chapter 3. The Civilizing Mission: Erasing Muslim Traditions and Imposing Colonial Modernity.- Chapter 4. Islamophobia and the Postcolonial Condition: Rethinking Christian Engagement in a Liberal World Order.- Chapter 5. Beyond Essentialism: Islam as a Discursive Tradition.- Chapter 6. Embodied Traditions: Approaching Islam as a Lived Faith.- Chapter 7. Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness Among Muslims.

Dr. Jose Abraham is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. His academic work engages the intersections of religious studies, global Christianity, and postcolonial theory, with particular attention to how religious traditions are formed, interpreted, and encountered under conditions of modernity and global exchange. He received his PhD from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where his research examined socio-religious reform movements among the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, South India, during the colonial period. His doctoral dissertation was subsequently published as Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India: Socio-Political and Religious Thought of Vakkom Moulavi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Before joining Fuller, Abraham taught at United Theological College, Bangalore, India, and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an ordained minister of the Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPC) and is committed to equipping churches for biblically grounded, historically informed, and constructive engagement with Muslims and people of other faiths in both local and global contexts.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Islam as the Illiberal Mirror—Orientalism and the Protestant Construction of Islam.- Chapter 3. The Civilizing Mission: Erasing Muslim Traditions and Imposing Colonial Modernity.- Chapter 4. Islamophobia and the Postcolonial Condition: Rethinking Christian Engagement in a Liberal World Order.- Chapter 5. Beyond Essentialism: Islam as a Discursive Tradition.- Chapter 6. Embodied Traditions: Approaching Islam as a Lived Faith.- Chapter 7. Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness Among Muslims.