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Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals for enhancing Self-Other interaction to improve societal harmony.

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Preface; Karim H. Karim and Mahmoud Eid 1. Engaging the Other; Mahmoud Eid and Karim H. Karim 2. Toledean Testimony: Reconquesta, Architectural Convivencia and the Man from La Mancha; H. Masud Taj 3. Christian and Muslim Principles of Debate: Renewing Discourse in the Public Square; Marianne Farina 4. European Education and Islam: Liberalism and Alerity; Shiraz Thobani 5. Muslim Civil Society in Eastern and Western Contexts: A Confluence of the Historical, the Local, and the Global; Karim H. Karim 6. Bridging Civilizations: The New Hermeneutics of Islamic Law; Anicée Van-Engeland 7. The Inner Clash of Civilizations within the Muslim Ummah; Steven Kull 8. Public Policy and Muslims in Western Societies: Security and Integration 9. Political Participation among Muslims in Europe and the United States; Jocelyne Cesari 10. Producing Alternative Media Discourses on Muslims; Faiza Hirji 11. Public Policy and the Clash of Ignorance; Mahmoud Eid and Karim H. Karim

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Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown University and Harvard University, USA Mahmoud Eid, University of Ottawa, Canada Marianne Farina, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, USA Faiza Hirji, McMaster University, Canada Karim H. Karim, Carleton University, Canada Steven Kull, University of Maryland, USA H. Masud Taj, Carleton University, Canada Shiraz Thobani, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK Anicée Van-Engeland, SOAS, University of London, UK

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