Abdul Aziz Said is Mohammed Said Farsi Professor of Islamic Peace, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. Meena Sharify-Funk is a Teaching Fellow, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.

The book provides a broad and salutory awareness of Islam's complicated place in history that would serve students well in a variety of disciplines and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Highly recommended.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 Introduction: A Summary of PapersChapter 3 Cultural Diversity in Civilizational Perspectives: Dynamics of Cultural Diversity and Tolerance in Islam; Unity and Diversity in Islam and Islamic Civilization; Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity; "True" aChapter 4 Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: The Conceptual Foundation of Cultural Diversity in Pre-Modern Islamic Civilization; The Islamic Encounter with the Chinese Intellectual Tradition; Pluralism and Islamic Perspectives on Cultural DiversityChapter 5 Crisis in Islamic State and Society: Islamists as Modernizers?; The Transformation of Iranian Political Culture: From Collectivism to IndividualismChapter 6 Alternative Models of Coexistence: Religio-Cultural Diversity: For What and With Whom? Muslim Reflections form a Post-Apartheid South Africa in the Throes of Globalization; Personal Reflections on Intellectual Diversity and Islam: The Example of LeChapter 7 EndnotesChapter 8 Editors' Biographical SketchesChapter 9 About the Contributors