Introduction: Islam and enlightenment, enlightened Islam, Islam as enlightening / Erik Borgman and Pim Valkenberg -- The necessary disillusionment: the Netherlands after the murder of Theo van Gogh / Theo W.A. de Wit -- What went wrong with Bernard Lewis? The uncertain debate about Islam and the Enlightenment / Marcel Poorthuis -- The right use of death: the fundamentalist logic in Mohammed Bouyeri's Open letter to Hirsi Ali / Marc de Kesel -- Some hypes and some hope: women and Islam in the Western media / Karen Vintges -- Women reading the Qurʼan / Nelly van Doorn-Harder -- 'Enlightened' interpretations of the Hadith literature / Asma Asfarussin -- Turkish Islam in dialogue with modern society: the neo-Sufi spirituality of the Gülen movement / Thomas Michel -- Humanism and Islam: the contribution of three Erasmus Prize Laureates 2004 / Erik Borgman -- Islam: radical changes in history, challenges of the present / Hans Küng -- Does the concept of 'Abrahamic religions' have a future? / Pim Valkenberg -- The transcendent and present God as space of enlightenment: the theological dialogue between Christians and Muslims as a contribution to modernity / Erik Borgman -- Islam in the media: how it is pictured and how it pictures itself / Theodore Gabriel -- Religious reactions and initiatives after the terrorist attacks in London, July 2005 / Lucinda Ory.