Islam and Global Dialogue: Religious Pluralism and the Pursuit of Peace

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Contents: Foreword, HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal Preface Introduction. Part 1 Defining the Issue: Religious pluralism and the heritage of the enlightenment, John Bowden Is our God listening? Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism, Diana L. Eck A Muslim's non-reductive religious pluralism, Muhammad Legenhausen. Part 2 Islam and the West: Clash or Dialogue?: Islam and the West: clash of civilisations?, Francis Robinson Of Saints and Sufis in the Near East: past and present?, William Dalrymple Islam and the West: clash or dialogue of civilisations?, Akbar S. Ahmed The 'clash of civilisations'?: sense and nonsense, Fred Halliday The dignity of difference: avoiding the clash of civilisations, Jonathan Sacks Conservative ecumenism: politically incorrect meditations on Islam and the West, Antony T. Sullivan From clashing civilisations to a common vision, Robert Dickson Crane The orphans of modernity and the clash of civilisations, Khaled Abou El Fadl. Part 3 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Responses to Religious Diversity: September 11: the case against us all, Tony Bayfield Towards a Jewish theology of trilateral dialogue, Norman Solomon Christians and people of other faiths, Marcus Braybrooke Mystery and plural faiths: religious diversity as expression of the quest for a Deus Absconditus, Frank Julian Gelli Religious pluralism and Islam in a polarised world, Murad Wilfried Hofmann Ecumenical Islam: a Muslim response to religious pluralism, Roger Boase The challenge of pluralism and the middle way of Islam, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas The Qur'an and religious pluralism, Mahmoud M. Ayoub. Postscript: The failure of war, Wendell Berry. Bibliography Index.