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Author	Derrida, Jacques.
Title	Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida / Mustapha Chérif ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Giovanna Borradori.
Publication Info.	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 1	909 D	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxii, 114 p. ; 23 cm.
Series	Religion and postmodernism
Note	Originally published as: L'Islam et l'Occident. Paris : Jacob, 2006.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Foreword: pure faith in peace -- Introduction: friendship, above all -- The future of civilizations -- The discussion -- To have lived, and to remember, as an algerian -- East-West: unity and differences -- Injustice and decline -- Separation or connection? -- Progress is absolute, or there is no progress -- Conclusion: the different other is indispensable to our lives -- Afterword: from the southern shores, adieu to Derrida -- Biography: Derrida and the southern shores.
Note	Translated from the French.
Subject	Derrida, Jacques -- Interviews.
	East and West.
	Civilization, Western.
	Islam -- 21st century.
	Political science -- Philosophy.
	Islam and politics.
Added Author	Cherif, Mustapha, 1950-
	Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.
	Borradori, Giovanna, author of foreword.
Added Title	Islam et l'Occident. English
	Conversation with Jacques Derrida
Cover Title	Islam & the West
ISBN	0226102866 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780226102863 (cloth : alk. paper)

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