Zahniser focuses on one of the particularly divisive issues separating Christians and Muslims--namely, differing views on the mission and death of Jesus. And yet in a close study of the Quran he finds surprising grounds for mutual understanding. In leading the reader toward comprehension of the ""other,"" Zahniser shows that ""our pilgrimage together will reveal that the force of differences will appear less by looking more closely at normative sources in contrast with later interpretation.