The present volume is dedicated to problems and prospects of dialogue between Christianity
and Islam, which definitely forms a focal point in the development of the contemporary
world. An immense body of literature has been produced in this area, and the immediate
context for the present collective monograph is formed by a number of recently published
materials of high-level societal and/or academic forums held under the aegis of/or in partnership
with UNESCO1, by academic publications in anthological or reading-book format2,
vocabularies, thesauruses, and/or reference books3, discussions materials4, conceptual works
dedicated to theoretical and pragmatic aspects of dialogue between Christianity and Islam5