Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening: Muhammad and Christian Prophecy

In March 2004, Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, convened a group of thirty Muslim and Christian scholars to discuss the issue of prophecy. Daniel Madigan, an Australian Jesuit and professor at Georgetown University, observed during that seminar, The question of Muhammad is without doubt the most avoided question in Muslim-Christian relations. One finds no mention of this Prophet of Islam, for example, in the otherwise laudatory comments made about Muslims and their faith in the groundbreaking documents of the Second Vatican Council. They give no sense at all that this faith has a founder and a history. And