Preface / Aslam Syed -- Rhetoric, discourse, and the future of hope / Richard W. Bulliet -- Rethinking Islam today / Mohammed Arkoun -- "So that you may know one another" : a Muslim American reflects on pluralism and Islam / Ali S. Asani -- Interpreting Islam in American schools / Susan L. Douglass and Ross E. Dunn -- Islam and Muslims in the mind of America / Fawaz A. Gerges -- White slaves, African masters / Paul Baepler -- Crusades and jihads : a long-run economic perspective / Alan Heston -- Travelers' tales in the Tablighi Jamaʻat / Barbara Metcalf -- Southeast Asia and Islam / Vincent J.H. Houben -- Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / Jack G. Shaheen -- Book review essay : viewing Islam through dark clouds / Aslam Syed.