Islam Studies News Today

The Palestinian-American literary scholar Edward Said (1935 – 2003) is required reading for anyone talking about Islam today. His main work, Orientalism, recently came out in a new German translation. Stefan Weidner read it for Qantara.de

Like many other dictators with a sense of mission, Muammar al-Gaddafi has authored a large body of political and philosophical writings. His book on solving the Arab-Israeli conflict is a remarkable collection of audacious theories, taking a fact-free approach to history, says Günther Orth