Islam, Islamism, and Democratic Values

A History Institute for Teachers

May 6–7, 2006

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Co-Chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter McDougall

Sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
A Division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Supported by a grant from The Annenberg Foundation

Gregg Conference Center, American College
270 S. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA

Topics and Speakers

Islam vs. Islamism
S. Abdallah Schleifer, Director, Washington News Bureau, Al Arabiya, and Associate Scholar, FPRI

Asian Islam and Arab Islam: Is There a Difference?
Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University
Editor of Remaking Muslim Politics (Princeton, 2005)

Islam in Europe
Jytte Klausen, Associate Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
Author of The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Michael Radu, Co-Chair, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Author of Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship (Transaction, 2006)

Moderator: Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

Keynote: Iraq’s Democratic Prospects (Auditorium)
Kanan Makiya, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Author of The Republic of Fear (Originally published under a pseudonym in 1989, updated in 1998)

Islam, Law, and Human Rights
David Forte, Charles R. Emrick Jr.-Calfee, Halter & Griswold Endowed Professor of Law, Cleveland State University
Author of Studies in Islamic Law (Austin & Winfield, 1999)

Panel Discussion: Islam, Democracy, and the West
Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chairholder in International Affairs and Miple Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
Author of Journey of the Jihadist (Harcourt, 2006)

Barry Rubin, Editor, Miple East Review of International Affairs, and Director, Global Research in International Affairs Center; Senior Fellow, FPRI
Author of The Long War for Freedom (John Wiley, 2005)

Moderator: Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

Islam and Politics in Historical Perspective
David Cook, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
Author of Understanding Jihad (University of California Press, 2005)

Classroom Lessons

Asian-Islam and Arab Islam (40K Microsoft Word document)
Iftikhar Ahmad
Debate: Islam & Democracy (34K Microsoft Word document)
Matthew Roy
European Muslim Unemployment (31K Microsoft Word document)
Slides for European Muslim Unemployment (130K Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
Heather Biebe
Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and World War I (47K Microsoft Word document)
Stephen S. Katz
Islam: A Bottom-Up Approach (40K Microsoft Word document)
William Montgomery
Islam & Islamic Culture (37K Microsoft Word document)
Siefring
Islamic Civivilization in Spain (38K Microsoft Word document)
Iftikhar Ahmad