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Part 1 Introduction - raising questions: Islam and the West; locating the key to unlock Muslim society; misunderstanding Muslims; questions for our age. Part 2 What is Islam?: the messenger - the prophet of Islam; the message - the holy Quran; Sunni and Shia divisions in Islam; Sufism - the Muslim universal way. Part 3 The challenge of the past - empires and dynasties: early Muslim history - the great Arab dynasties; the ideal model of European society - Muslim Spain; The Ottomans (1300-1922); The Safavids (1501-1722); The Mughals (1526-1857). Part 4 When the worlds collide - Muslim nations and Western modernity: the dilemmas of modern Turkey; Iran's Islamic quest; India and the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh; issues in modernity - democracy, family and identity. Part 5 Muslims as minorities: the "problem" of Muslim minorities; Muslims in the West; Stornoway - Muslims of the Outer Hebrides; the golden road to Samarkland - Islam's forgotten frontier in Central Asia; the Muslims of India - a people in search of a destiny. Part 6 Islam in the age of the Western media: Islam and the West - confrontation or consensus?; concluding thoughts.