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A Welcome Note from Director John L. Esposito

Prof. John Esposito"The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is concerned with Islam and the West and Islam in the West. The Center, since its creation in 1993, has built bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West, addressing stereotypes of Islam and Muslims and issues and questions such as the clash of civilizations, and the compatibility of Islam and modern life - from democratization and pluralism to the status of women, minorities and human rights - and American foreign policy in the Muslim world."

-John L. Esposito


ACMCU Opinion Pieces

On Faith: Anglican Tensions Runneth Over

By John L. Esposito

(Re-printed courtesy of On Faith

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments regarding the need in Great Britain to consider whether English law should accommodate some aspects of Islamic law reflects a context significantly different from America. The firestorm and subsequent reactions to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments ... [full text]

Who Speaks for Islam?

By John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed

(Re-printed courtesy of Middle East Times and the  Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Extremists and terrorism have too often monopolized the media's coverage and thus the message coming out of the Muslim world. But what do the vast majority of mainstream Muslims really beli... [full text]

This bridge is on every postcard of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, though it was blown up a decade ago during the Yugoslav war. It has come to symbolize the divide in the city: to the west live Catholic Croats; to the east, Bosnian Muslims.

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