Al Qaeda in Its Own Words

Abstract

dominant traits. Tibi’s solution, to adopt a cross-cultural philosophy to underpin cultural change and the acceptance of universal values, would go a long way to achieving this goal. Tibi’s arguments are supported by excellent scholarship and rigorous research. The detailed analysis of the problematic relationship between Islam and European democracy is superb. This book should be required reading for everyone trying to understand the relationship between political Islam, global politics and the relationship this has to western Europe. Its advocacy of peaceful integrative solutions to conflict is to be commended in the light of recent intolerance from all sides. The interesting thing about the text is that it clearly goes beyond scholarly activity to provide a framework for managing and accommodating relations between different civilizational impulses. It is in work like this that we find how social science and the humanities can have a real impact on policy and society.