Getting to Know Each Other

Western view of Islam: A troubled history

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA6B3D95-164F-401A-A7C7-786402E273CE.htm

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I once (as a young faculty member assigned a course in which he managed to keep roughly one chapter ahead of his students) taught a course in comparative religion in which we surveyed them all from the perspective of the author of the pre-assigned text, Man Seeks the Divine, whose title is about all I recall. Thus, with our reecent world encounters with Islam I have felt strongly the obligation to find out what this major faith really is today. I had the good fortune to have a publisher forward Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century:

http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1850437513

which I read at the beginning of the summer with great profit. Here is an interesting report by a researcher at the University of London which fills in some more blanks. I fully agree with her that it is time we moved beyond the medieval era of bitter conflict between religious traditions to mutual respect for the best in each -- which is largely shared by all!
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