Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies,
conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the
Islamic world threatens any prospect for East-West rapprochement.
Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the
West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with
the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman
Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the
newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse
determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their
religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that
it cannot afford. In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons
unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam,
conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing
narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the
discourse's corrosive effects on the social sciences, including
sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, international relations,
security studies, and human rights scholarship. He follows its
influence on research, speeches, political strategy, and government
policy, preventing the West from responding effectively to its most
significant twenty-first-century challenges: the rise of Islamic
power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension
between established social values and multicultural rights among
Muslim immigrant populations. Through the intellectual
"archaeology" of Michel Foucault, Lyons reveals the workings of
this discourse and its underlying impact on our social,
intellectual, and political lives. He then addresses issues of deep
concern to Western readers-Islam and modernity, Islam and violence,
and Islam and women-and proposes new ways of thinking about the
Western relationship to the Islamic world.
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