Frontmatter — Introduction — Contents — PART 1.North Africa — Introduction — Islamic education in Tunisia (ca. 800-1574) — Early Moroccan reactions to the French protectorate: The cultural dimension — Cultural problems and social structure: The Campaign for Arabization in Morocco — The realm of justice: Apocalyptic revolts in Algeria (1849-1879) — The Libyan revolution according to Meredith O. Ansell and Ibrahim Massaud al-Arif — Arab Algerian literature revisited — PART 2.Mediaeval Islam — A seventh-century (A.H.) Sunnî creed: The ‘Aqïda Wâsitïya of Ibn Taymïya — A controversy on the problem of perception: Two religious outlooks in Islam — Psychosomatic methods of cures in the Islamic Middle Ages — Poetic structure in Arabic: Three poems by al-Mu’tamid Ibn ‘Abbad — PART 3.Turkish Islam and other cultures — A young Croat’s encounter with an exotic Muslim culture: A Serbo-Croatian travel epic of the nineteenth century — Muscovite-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — Orhan Veli Kanik and the beginnings of modern Turkish poetry — The Alexander romance in the Diwan Lughat at-Turk — PART 4.The state of Islamic studies — Changes of perspective in Islamic studies over the last decades — On teaching Islam to undergraduates — List of contributors — Index of proper names