Islam and the West

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to consider contributing to the Special Issue on Islam and the West. The wounds inflected on the Islamic world by Western imperialism still fester. They have, alas, yet to be genuinely addressed. This Special Issue seeks to probe and adumbrate discursive horizons allowing for a healing of the political and cultural legacy that continues to burden the relation between Islam and the West. In this regard, we will also ask what may be learned from the irenic relations between Jews and Muslims that prevailed in the Arabic-speaking world at least until the rise of Zionism under the tutelage of British and French colonialism. Among other questions that may be addressed in the symposium is whether the relation between the Byzantine Eastern Church and Islam substantially differed from that of Western Latin Christianity which for two centuries set siege on Islam under the banner of crusades to rescue the Holy Land from the hands of “Arabian pagans”.

Prof. Dr. Paul Mendes-Flohr
Guest Editor

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