PART I: STDUYING THE WESTERN 'OTHER' AND UNDERSTANDING THE ISLAMIC 'SELF' Studying the Western 'Other' and Understanding the Islamic 'Self': A Qur'anically Reasoned Perspective; B.B.Koshul "Voltaire's Bastards" - A Response to Basit Koshul's "Studying the Western Other"; M.S.Umar Islam, "A Prophetic, Dissenting Witness within the Reality of the Modern World": A Response to Basit Koshul; Y.Mermer Response to Basit Koshul; V.Cornell PART II: STUDYING THE ISLAMIC 'OTHER' AND UNDERSTANDING THE WESTERN 'SELF' Islam as Our "Other," Islam as Our "Self"; S.Kepnes Beyond Logics of Preservation and Burial: The Display of Distance and Proximity of Traditions in Scriptural Reasoning; N.Adams Response to Steven Kepnes; I.Markham Is Scriptural Reasoning Senseless? A Response to Steven Kepnes; M.Kavka PART III: REFLECTIONS ON SCRIPTURE, REASON AND THE CONTEMPORARY ISLAM-WEST ENCOUNTER; D.Ford, P.Ochs & T.Winter