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The Islam/West Debate

Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East

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The Islam/West Debate

Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East

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In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the most pressing issues of our time: terrorism, U.S. policy, and Islam-West relations.

A valuable resource for specialist and non-specialist alike, this volume chronicles that debate and includes contributions from both sides of the political spectrum in America and the Middle East-and even from al-Qa'ida.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the Debate
Chapter 2 What We're Fighting For: A Letter from America
Chapter 3 What We're Fighting For: A Follow-Up
Chapter 4 Key Intellectualism
Chapter 5 The Letter is American, the Schizophrenia Islamic
Chapter 6 Options Are Limited
Chapter 7 How We Can Coexist
Chapter 8 Please Prostrate Yourselves Privately
Chapter 9 Letter to the American People
Chapter 10 Reading an Enemy: Analyzing al-Qa'ida's “Letter to America”
Chapter 11 What We're Defending: A Letter from Makkah in Response to the Open Letter from Sixty American Intellectuals
Chapter 12 Can We Coexist? A Response from Americans to Colleagues in Saudi Arabia
Chapter 13 Saudis Ban Paper with U.S. Scholars' Letter
Chapter 14 American Values Abroad
Chapter 15 The First Point of Disagreement
Chapter 16 Learning through Letters
Chapter 17 The New Intra-Arab Cultural Space in Form and Content: The Debates Over an American “Letter”
Chapter 18 The Need for a Paradigm Shift in American Thinking: Middle Eastern Responses to “What We're Fighting For”; “Together with the Democratic Iraq Initiative and the Sharon Initiative”
Chapter 19 Pre-Emption, Iraq, and Just War: A Statement of Principles
Chapter 20 A World of Justice and Peace Would Be Different
Chapter 21 Letter from U.S. Citizens to Friends in Europe
Chapter 22 Is the Use of Force Ever Morally Justified?
Chapter 23 The U.S.-German Conversation
Chapter 24 In the Twenty-First Century, There Is No Longer Any Justification for War
Chapter 25 Just War and Internationalism: Oppositional or Complementary?
Chapter 26 The Arab World and the United States: A Just War?

Product details

Published Sep 15 2005
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781461666479
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

David Blankenhorn

Anthology Editor

Abdou Filali-Ansary

Anthology Editor

Hassan I. Mneimneh

Anthology Editor

Alex Roberts

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