The Muslim Question in Europe

The author of this remarkable book, Peter O’Brien, is also the author of European Perceptions of Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered as well as Beyond the Swastica. Impressive as the entire volume is its “References”, covering no less than 46 pages and listing authors like Talal Asad, Edmund Burke, Régis Debray, Jacques Derrida, René Descartes, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michel Foucault, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Georg W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, David Hume, John Locke, Oswald Spengler, John Stuart Mill, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Taylor, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, Max Weber, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, to name but a few. Remarkably, the book seems to have profited from all of these authors.