Preface 9
Introduction 19
Islamic History . Through the 14ens of
Orientalism ... 31
Islam and the lVe8t-Dr. Philip K.Hitti ...
The Christian 'View 45
The Gall of the ~Minaret
The Dome and the Rock-Dr. Kenneth
Cragg
C'oun(!t>ls in Gontemr1orary Islam
The Jewish View . . . 71
Jews and Arabs--S.D. Goitein
The Sociological View 97

Islam and the Integration rf Society-
Montgomery Watt

The Secular View Ill
/.c;lam in 11-lodfrn History-Wilfred
Cantwell Smith
The Humanist View
Eaypt in Search of a Political Community
-Nadav Safran
The Modernist View
Modern Trcnd8 in lslam-H.A.R. Gibb

136

153

The Conspiracy of Orientalism l6t
Islam and Pak,istan-Freeland Abbott
Epilogue 182

I was born forty six years ago into a pleasant
and prosperous suburb near New York .City. My
ancestry was Geriilan and my family through living

there four generations had become entirely assimila-
ted t<> American life. My great-grand parents had

migrated from Germany between 1848-ISGl seeking
brighter economic opportunities. Although of
Jewish origin, neither my mother nor my father
wer:e observant, their J ewishness being purely
nominaL Thus I was raised like my elder sister in
a typical American ,environment an:d received an
ordinary secular education at the local public
schools.