title: Christianity Face to Face with Islam: First Things Reprint Series (Volume 1)
author: Robert Louis Wilken
description: Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia and a frequent First Things contributor.
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  THE DARK SIDE OF ISLAM
  
  **OTHER CROSSWAY BOOKS  
  by R. C. Sproul **
  
  > _The Consequences of Ideas_
  
  > _Justified by Faith Alone_
  
  > _Saved from What?_
  
  > _The Spirit of Revival_ (with Archie Parrish)
  
  > _When Worlds Collide_
  
  ![9781433515743_0004_001](Images/image00047.jpeg)
  
    
    
    
  _The Dark Side of Islam_
  
  Copyright © 2003 by R. C. Sproul
  
  > Published by Crossway Books  
  > a division of Good News Publishers  
  > 1300 Crescent Street  
  > Wheaton, Illinois 60187.
  
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  Cover design: Kirk DouPonce, UDG / Design Works, Sisters, Oregon
  
  Cover photo: Richard T. Nowitz, National Geographic
  
  First printing 2003
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  Scripture references are fr