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