The art of portraiture ; The long quests ; History and revelation ; Saints and their lives ; In the eyes of the believers ; Polemic and history ; Two foreign countries ; Parallel tracks, parallel lives
Jesus and first-century Palestine ; The context for Muhammad ; The prophets in place
The dossier on Jesus ; The dossier on Muhammad ; The New Testament and the Quran
The Critic at Work: Coming of Age.
Jesus' infancy narratives ; The "infancy gospel of Islam" ; Where do we stand?
Jesus speaks ; Muhammad speaks, or sings ; Q and the Hadith
The Message: Jesus in Galilee.
The shape of the gospels ; John the Baptist and Jesus ; The twelve ; Spreading the good news ; An itinerant preacher ; What was the good news? ; The kingdom ; Messiahs and the Messiah
Signs and wonders ; A Jewish teacher ; The man and the message
The Message: Muhammad at Mecca.
A preliminary exercise ; The man Muhammad ; The call to prophecy ; An experience of the unseen world ; A heavenly journey ; Identification, validation ; Muhammad's public preaching ; The Muslims pray ; Growing pressures ; The Satanic Verses ; Threats of the judgment ; The seal of the prophets ; Identifying the prophet ; Two prophetic reformers ; The plot against Muhammad ; A resort to violence ; The migration ; Two versions of the good news
Act Two: Tragedy and Triumph.
Jesus in Jerusalem ; Muhammad at Medina ; Politics and piety ; A New Dawn: The Aftermath, the Legacy.
Jesus, the aftermath ; Muhammad, the legacy ; Portraits from life
Without the Lord ; How the message spread ; Making Christians ; Without the prophet ; The missionary impulse ; Conversion and assimilation ; Making Muslims.
