A marvellous and accessible guide to one of the great issues in the world today. If you have been puzzled and bewildered by the mixed messages abounding in the relations between Islam and the western world, this is the book for you.

Akbar Ahmed is the Allama Iqbal Fellow and Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. His previous books include Pakistan Society, Discovering Islam and Resistance and Control in Pakistan.

Chapter 1 Postmodernism and Islam; Chapter 2 Greek gods and Semitic prophets; Chapter 3 Confrontation and clash; Chapter 4 Studying Islam; Chapter 5 Culture and change; Chapter 6 The evil demon: the media as master References Name index; Subject Index;