Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword by Gilbert Achcar vii
4. Preface to the English Translation xi
5. Preface to the Second Arabic Edition li
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Religion and the World in Historical Perspective 7
8. 2 The Reformist State and the Universalist Orientation 85
9. 3 Intellectual Transformations and Elusive Reconciliation 181
10. 4 Sites of Secularism in the Twentieth Century 245
11. 5 The Nationalist Era and the Future Besieged 351
12. 6 Secularism at the Turn of the Millennium in the Context of its Adversaries 407
13. Bibliography 451
14. Index 511