| Title Page | 3 |
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| Copyright | 4 |
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| Table of Contents | 7 |
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| Body | 9 |
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| Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 1. Foreword | 9 |
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| Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 2. Humanism and Muslim Culture: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges | 11 |
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| 1. Universal concept of humanity | 13 |
| 2. Centrality of the human being: Anthropocentrism | 14 |
| 3. Human dignity as a basic value of cultural orientation | 15 |
| 4. Equality of all human beings in respect to their essential dignity | 15 |
| 5. Fundamental reference to responsibility and otherness in human existence | 16 |
| 6. Individuality and social responsibility | 16 |
| 7. Humanity and Transcendence | 17 |
| The present book | 18 |
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| Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam? | 20 |
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| Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture | 21 |
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| Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases | 22 |
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| Bibliography | 24 |
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| Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam? | 25 |
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| : 3. The Concept of Man in the Qur'an. Non-Muslim Perspectives | 27 |
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| Introduction | 27 |
| Part I: The social background of the Qur'anic text | 30 |
| Part II: Humanistic Hermeneutics of the Qur'an | 35 |
| Bibliography | 38 |
| : 4. Rethinking the Qur'an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics | 39 |
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| 1. The Qur'an as `Discourse' | 41 |
| 2. The Qur’an versus the Mu..af: the spoken and the silent | 43 |
| 3. The `Text' Reconstructed and Manipulated | 44 |
| 4. Polyphonic not Monophonic | Who Speaks and Who Listens? |
| 5. Dialogue | 50 |
| 6. Negotiation | 53 |
| 7. From Negotiation to Disputation | 55 |
| Conclusion | 59 |
| Bibliography | 60 |
| : 5. The Vicissitudes of Ethics in Islamic Thought | 61 |
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| The two sources of ethics | 63 |
| 1) From the tensions between reason and belief to an ultraliberal pragmatism versus Islamic fundamentalism | 65 |
| 2) From the ethics of to the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism: which specific lessons? | 73 |
| 3) Where do the Values Go? Commanding the Right and Prohibiting the Wrong (al-amr bi-l-ma‘ruf wa-l-nahy ‘ani-l-munkar) | 78 |
| Instead of a Conclusion: Postulates and Systems of Truth | 82 |
| Bibliography | 84 |
| Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture | 87 |
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| Renate Würsch: 6. Humanism and Mysticism – Inspirations from Islam | 89 |
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| Bibliography | 99 |
| Hinrich Biesterfeldt: 7. The Perfect Man – a Humanist? | 101 |
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| 1. The Perfect Man in Ibn al-.Arabi’s thought and al-Jili’s system | 102 |
| 2. Various personifications of the Perfect Man in Islamic religious thought | 105 |
| 3. The Perfect Man – a Humanist? | 108 |
| Bibliography | 112 |
| Stefan Reichmuth: 8. Humanism in Islam between Mysticism and Literature | 115 |
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| Bibliography | 125 |
| Michael Kreutz: 9. Understanding the Other: on Reason and Individualism | 127 |
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| Heritage in an Age of Criticism | 129 |
| From to | 132 |
| A Plea for Human Reason | 136 |
| From Reason to Faith | 139 |
| Bibliography | 142 |
| Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases | 145 |
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| Birgit Schäbler: 10. Humanism, Orientalism, Modernity: A Critique | 147 |
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| From Humanism to Neo-Humanism | 148 |
| Writing Islam out of Modernity | 150 |
| Global Modernity | 156 |
| Bibliography | 159 |
| Michael Kemper: 11. The Cracks in Civilizations: The Dutch Public Discourse on Humanism and Islam | 163 |
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| , Fitna (2008) | 165 |
| , Islam for Pigs (2008) | 170 |
| Kader Abdolah, The Koran./The Messenger (2008) | 173 |
| Conclusion | 176 |
| Bibliography | 177 |
| About the Contributors | 179 |
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