Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror. Ed. Tareq Y. Ismael and Andrew Rippin. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. Pp. ix + 290. Hbk. ISBN 978-0-415-56414-4, £85.00.

This book, one of the outcomes of a conference at the University of Victoria in 2008, is a valuable Canadian contribution to the discussion of a significant contemporary issue. Of its fifteen contributors, including the two editors, seven are based in Canada, five in the United States (one with an additional association with Cairo), and one …