Christopher Brewin

The Hebrew University and the European Commission are to be congratulated on the publication of these trenchant conference papers presented in Berlin in May 2006. In the words of Shlomo Avineri (p. 17), "Just as most European societies have now learned .... to view Jews as an integral part of European history and legacy, so Islam - and Muslims - has to be seen as one of the constitutive elements of Europe- both historically as well as regarding the future':