Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword by the Publisher

pp vii-xii

What Are We Talking About?

pp 1-2

1 - Faith and Reason in Islam: Strategies in the Education of Muslim Communities

pp 3-8

2 - Jihad

pp 9-14

3 - The Takfir Syllogism

pp 15-16

4 - What is Islamism?

pp 17-18

5 - The Shari‘a from a Secular Perspective

pp 19-26

Self-Image, The Other And Crossing Borders

pp 27-28

6 - Owning the Future: Modern Arabs and Hamlet

pp 29-34

7 - Experience or “Regime of Truth”? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern

pp 35-50

8 - Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism

pp 51-66

9 - What’s in a Name: Middle East or West Asia?

pp 67-74

Civil Society And Arab Revolt

pp 75-76

10 - The Concept of Civil Society in Relation to the ‘Arab Spring’

pp 77-86

11 - Arab Nationalism, Islamism and the Arab Uprising

pp 87-98

12 - Syria in Revolt

pp 99-110

13 - Orientalism of the Worst Kind*

pp 111-114

Speaking Truth To Power

pp 115-116

14 - Statement by 99 Syrian Intellectuals: Al-Hayat 27 September 2000

pp 117-120

15 - Saving the Nonviolent Revolution in Syria: For a Credible Strategy

pp 121-124

16 - Syrian Writers, Artists and Journalists Speak Out Against US and Russian Policy

pp 125-132

Closing Words

pp 133-134

17 - Goethe Medal 2015 Acceptance Speech: Weimar, 28 August 2015

pp 135-138

Bibliography

pp 139-143