Testimonies and Reflections: Essays of Louis Massignon

by Louis Massignon, Herbert Mason (Editor)

English (translation)Original French

178 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1989

About the author

Louis Massignon was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate.