Sidney GriffithSidney H. Griffith is Ordinary Professor Emeritus of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of America. His areas of interest include Syriac patristics, Christian Arab literature, and the history of Christian/Muslim elations, especially within the world of Islam and in the early Islamic period. He is the author of The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period (Ashgate, 2002), The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Princeton University Press, 2008), and The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam (Princeton University Press, 2013). Read More Read Less