DITIB in Dialogue with State, Society and Church

Contents:

• Editorial
• Dialogue with DITIB – an Interim Assessment (Friedmann Eißler)
• Turkish Friday Sermons in German Mosques: Advice for Muslims in a Society Shaped by a Different Faith (Wolfgang Häde)
• Book reviews

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Contents:

• Editorial
• Charismatic Leadership in Sufism: A Critical Analysis of Key Features and Distinctions with a Christian Reflection (Dejan Aždajić)
• Islamic Interpretive Sovereignty in a Western Secular Context: Two Prominent German Converts and Their Views on Dialogue, Daʿwa, and Muslim Life (Esther Schirrmacher)
• Book reviews

Anti-Semitism and Hostility Against Muslims: Critical Remarks on Old and New Enemy Images

Contents:

• Editorial
• Anti-Semitism in the Muslim Context – An Orientation Guide to the Current Debate in Scholarship and Society (Carsten Polanz)
• Criticism of Islam, Islamophobia, Hostility Towards Muslims or Anti-Muslim Racism? The German Islam Debate and Its Problems of Conceptual Definitions and Attributions of Guilt (Christine Schirrmacher)
• Book review

Christians, Muslims and Blasphemy

Contents:

• Editorial
• The Islamic Punishment for Blasphemy (Gordon Nickel)
• On the Christian Handling of Blasphemy: A Biblical-Theological Orientation and Social-Ethical Reflection (Kerstin Cramer)
• Book reviews

Christians as Perceived by Muslims

Contents:

• Editorial
• Perception of Christians as Reflected by Turkish Newspapers: Analysis and Developments (Wolfgang Häde)
• “Jordanian Islam” and Its View Towards Christians and Christianity – Qualitative Field Research in Irbid (Nina Müller)
• Book reviews

Protestant Churches and their Dialogue with Muslims: Challenges and Perspectives

Contents:

• Editorial
• Christian Witness in Dialogue with Muslims: Ten Constructive-Critical Proposals for Current Positions and Pathway Determinations of the Protestant Regional Churches (Thomas Schirrmacher)
• “Clarity and Good Neighborship” as an Ongoing Challenge: The Church’s Perception and Presentation of Islam in Times of Societal Polarization (Carsten Polanz)
• Book review

Islam in Bosnia – an Exceptional Case?

Contents:

• Editorial
• The native European Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A century-old autochthonous Islamic tradition in the heart of Europe (Dejan Aždajić)
• “Islamic Tradition”: Questioning the Bosnian Model (Zora Hesová)
• Book review