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Before drawing together some of the main threads in this book, it will be as well to recall that the study group was formed out of concern with suggestions of a looming post-Cold War confrontation between Islam and the ‘Christian’ West: We are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations — the perhaps irrational but surely historical reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the world-wide expansion of both.1