Islam & Europe : challenges and opportunities / Ludo Abicht [and others].

"Seven well-known influential authorities - each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future - recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A. & A. Leysen. These important contributions, on the topic Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities, are presented in this volume." "Although each contributor speaks from his own distinctive point of view, a common message emerges from all seven texts. Only dialogue - between the West and Islam on the one hand, and within and among societies historically identified with Islam on the other - will overcome entrenched confrontation and negative animosity, and engender new possibilities and understandings. By encouraging free and critical drinking, dialogue paves the way to social equity and the scientific innovation that, potentially, can lead to more prosperity. In the course of the conference all seven talks led to fascinating debates. This book includes the most important questions asked and the speakers' responses. Although the question of how to actually construct the dialogue remains unsettled, this ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward an answer"--Jacket

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ISLAM & EUROPEChallenges and Opportunities; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction to The Anne & André Leysen Forum on 'Intercultural relations'; Multiple Adaptations: Islam in Three Worlds; Institutional Logics; Indonesia; France; United States; Pebbles in the Shoe; Trans-National Islam; France and Europe; References; Questions and Answers; The Poldermujahidin: The Radicalization of Young Dutch Muslims; Introduction; Van Gogh's Murderer and His Ideas; The Construction of a Dutch Extremist Islamist; 'The quest for the truth'; 'Rejecting the Tâghût' (October 2003).

'Join the Caravan of Martyrs' (March 2003)' ... your blood and properties have become halal.' (Summer 2003); Analysis; Conclusions; Islam and Europe in the Age of Intercivilizational Conflict Diversity and the Challenges; Introduction; Europe and Diversity; Europe and its Civilizational Identityin its Interaction with Islam; Cultural Difference and the Challenge of Religion:The Limits; Neo-absolutism and Cultural Relativism in Europe; Integration vs. Islamic Enclaves; What are the Limits of Diversity?; Conclusions and Policy Recommendations:Europe and Islam; Questions and Answers.

Muslim Integration and SecularismIdentity Politics; Religious Equality; Implications for Liberal Citizenship; Secularisms; References; Questions and Answers; Islam, Muslims and the West: Religion and Secularism From Polarization to Negotiation Nasr Abu Zayd; Introduction; Islam and Christianity:Different Historical Paradigms; The Modernity Dilemma; Re-politicization; Negotiation or Confrontation; Science and Religion, an Uneasy Relationship in the History of Judeo-Christian-Muslim Heritage; Islam's Satanic Tragedy, as Described in Sadik al-Azm's Exegesis: Introduction by Jean-pierre Rondas.

Sadik J. al-Azm's LectureIntroduction; Controversies between autonomous reason anddivine revelation in the history of Western thought; The ban of "Critique of Religious Thought" (1969); Impeding the creativity of novelists, poets, etc.; Can Islam reconcile itself with the new and dominant scientificknowledge-paradigm?; Conclusion; Response by Mark Eyskens; Propositions; Response by Roger Dillemans; Why we are so obsessed by Islam?; Introduction by Ludo Abicht; Tariq Ali's Lecture; Introduction; The comeback of religion: filling the vacuum; Islam bridging between the ancient world and Europe.

Contradictory aspects about IslamIslam in Europe; Anger at the West; Conclusion; Questions and Answers; List of Contributors.

English.

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