Islam and Europe : Challenges and Opportunities.

Intro -- ISLAM &amp -- EUROPE Challenges and Opportunities -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction to The Anne &amp -- 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 Identity in 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 Secularism -- Identity 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 Lecture -- Introduction -- Controversies between autonomous reason and divine 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 scientific knowledge-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 Islam -- Islam in Europe -- Anger at the West -- Conclusion -- Questions and Answers -- List of Contributors.

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