Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‛ is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and co-Director of the Duncan Black McDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. He is the co-editor of "The Muslim World," the oldest journal on Islam in the US. He is the editor of several books and the author of the following: "Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab ""World (State University of New York Press, 1995) and Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History ""(Pluto Press, 2004). ""