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europe & islamOn 9/11 the West woke up to its ignorance of Islam and the state of Muslim public opinion - in the Middle East and the diaspora. This debate was our response. Initiated by London’s Goethe Institute, European cultural institutes, in conjunction with openDemocracy, have collaborated in a series of live debates featuring leading scholars of Islam from Europe and beyond on the relationship -historical, theological, social and political.
The Islamic thinker's "Radical Reform" reveals the skill and care that informs his search for influence
The stories told by Europe of its encounters with the Islamic world are driven by proxy politics
Misreading resistance in the Middle East, the European Left risks consigning itself to irrelevancy
An influential Turkish network fuses faith and modernity in search of a new social order
A rising generation will take Muslims' post-7/7 intellectual ferment forward, testing institutions
How new evidence and insight is enriching historical understanding of early Islam (archive)
The formation of Pakistan is a case-study in the argument over whether religion can be a variant of political ideology
A group of theologians in Ankara is filtering early Islamic
texts in light of modern reason...is this "reformation"?
The theology and history of Islamic law are important, but more must be known about its practice
When a careful lecture on legal pluralism is drowned in prejudice, it’s time to restate the principles of a shared civic space
An argument over sharia highlights the difference between Christian and Muslim visions of law
England's leading churchman exposes a larger national-identity crisis
"Dumb down" or be damned? When a debate about religion and law is hijacked by fury, everyone loses
Two great empires and faiths in decades-long confrontation. But as conflict receded, so the vision of the enemy changed...
The science-religion "war" is dust. The real argument
is over power and justice
The debate about Muslims and the west must connect ideas to living realities
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letter to Christian leaders reveals Muslim liberals' intellectual vacuity
What does enduring powerlessness do to a country's citizens?
A cartoon-war veteran responds to Birgitta Steene's article on Sweden's "roundabout dog"
A "roundabout dog" with a Muslim theme inflames public passions
Arab Christians were agents of progress in the Arab and Muslim world. What happened?
The charismatic reformist Islamism of Nadia Yassine seeks a new path for Morocco's poor
“Mosques have never been so full, nor hearts so empty”. In war’s painful aftermath, Algerians are seeking new accommodations between religion and politics
Liberalism, communalism, transnational Muslim identity ... can a new multiculturalism cope with all this? Tariq Modood responds to his critics
A "micropublic" mix can bring Tariq Modood's multicultural vision alivePlus: Nira Wickramasinghe's Sri Lankan lesson, Paul Kelly's liberal caution
In war-torn Sri Lanka, a western model fixes identities that are fluid and contingent, replies Nira Wickramasinghe to Tariq Modood
Multiculturalism must move beyond the nation-state. Yahya Birt takes issue with Tariq Modood Plus: Sunny Hundal and Nick Pearce join the debate
Tariq Modood's reconsidered multiculturalism needs to be extended to a global and cosmopolitan canvas
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