Islam, Judaism, and the Political Role of Religions in the Middle East Book

	Foreword: Adrift in Similarity
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	On Islam and Judaism, Muslims and Jews
1	A Religion's Self-Conception of "Religion": The Case of Judaism and Islam	19
2	Islam and Judaism: Cultural Relations and Interaction through the Ages	28
II	Negotiating Religions and Identities
3	National Identity and the Role of the "Other" in Existential Conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian Case	61
4	The Politicization of Muslim-Christian Relations in the Palestinian National Movement	75
III	Progressive Potentials within Religious Traditions
5	Democracy without Secularism? Reflections on the Idea of Islamic Democracy	99
6	Religious Roots of Tolerance with Special Reference to Judaism and Islam	118
IV	On the Use of Religion in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics
7	Imposed Normalization and Cultural Transgression: Cultural Politics in Egypt and Israel since the 1979 Peace Treaty	137
8	Islamic Themes in Palestinian Political Thought	156
9	Israel, Religion, and Peace	166
	Contributors	191
	Index	195