Foreword

contemporary conflicts, political legitimacy and Islam

Volker Kaul

3-8

The public visibility of Islam and European politics of resentment

the minarets–mosques debate

Nilüfer Göle

9-18

"Creative destruction"

states, identities and legitimacy in the Arab world

Lisa Anderson

19-29

After the Arab Spring

Michael Walzer

31-40

Politics after al-Qaeda

Faisal Devji

41-49

Genie in the bottle

Gezi park, taksim square, and the realignment of democracy and space in Turkey

İlay Romain Örs

51-61

All quiet on the Kemalist front?

Murat Borovalı, Cemil Boyraz

63-73

Rethinking the "Kurdish question" in Turkey

modernity, citizenship and democracy

75-85

Foreword

Islam and democracy

Volker Kaul

89-95

The "others" in the Qur'an

a hermeneutical approach

Nasr Abu Zayd

97-109

The epistemology of the truth in modern islam

111-124

Democracy and islam

Irfan Ahmad

125-136

Islam

the test of globalization

Abdelmajid Charfi

137-147

Whither democracy?

religion, politics and Islam

Fred Dallmayr

149-160

Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide

Nader Hashemi

161-169

Islam and the West

conflict, democracy, identity

Akeel Bilgrami

171-177

Foreword

political models accommodating pluralism

Volker Kaul

181-188

Interculturalism or multiculturalism?

Charles Taylor

189-200

Misunderstanding cultures

Islam and the West

Kwame A. Appiah

201-210

Many cultures, one citizenship

Alain Touraine

211-217

The specter haunting multiculturalism

Richard Bernstein

229-240

Reflexive pluralism

Alessandro Ferrara

241-251

The emerging domain of the political

David Rasmussen

253-262

Foreword

gender equality and multiculturalism

Volker Kaul

265-270

Uncrossed Bridges

Islam, feminism and secular democracy

Asma Barlas

271-279

Women's problems as a "women's only" problem?

debates on gender and democracy in Iran

Katajun Amirpur

281-289

Women's rights in muslim societies

lessons from the Moroccan experience

Nouzha Guessous

291-300

The debate on religion, law and gender in post-revolution Tunisia

Amel Grami

301-313

Faith in law?

diffusing tensions between diversity and equality

Ayelet Shachar

315-329