Engaging the Other Public Policy and Western-Muslim Intersections

Western and Muslim civilizations have demonstrated a vast capacity for productive engagement in the past and the present. But this long record of collaborative relationships has not prevented a contemporary escalation of the Western-Muslim 'clash of ignorance.' Much of the interaction between the two sides is characterized by a mutual lack of awareness of the vital role that each played in shaping the other. This timely book appears as policymakers search for approaches that go beyond securitization and militarization. Its chapters examine various forms of domestic and international engagement between the two civilizations. The meticulous research on historical and contemporary experiences draws out nuances that are generally lost to most observers. It analyzes Western-Muslim intersections in the areas of civil society, education, foreign policy, immigrant integration, legal reform, media production, political participation, public opinion, and security.

Karim H. Karim is Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam and a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Canada.

Mahmoud Eid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada.

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