German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture.

Introduction - James R. Hodkinson and Jeffrey Morrison"cristen, ketzer, heiden, jüden": Questions of Identity in the Middle Ages - Timothy Richard JacksonWolfram von Eschenbach, Islam, and the Crusades - Cyril EdwardsPerverted Spaces: Boundary Negotiations in Early-Modern Turcica - Silke R. FalknerEnlightenment Encounters in the Islamic and Arabic Worlds: The German "Missing Link" in Said's Orientalist Narrative (Meiners and Herder) - W. Daniel WilsonGoethe, Islam, and the Orient: The Impetus for and Mode of Cultural Encounter in the West-östlicher Divan - Yomb MayMoving beyond the Binary? Christian-Islamic Encounters and Gender in the Thought and Literature of German Romanticism - James R. HodkinsonForms of Encounter with Islam around 1800: The Cases of Johann Hermann von Riedesel and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt - Jeffrey MorrisonDisplacing Orientalism: Ottoman Jihad, German Imperialism, and the Armenian Genocide - Rachel MagShamhráinGerman-Islamic Literary Interperceptions in Works by Emily Ruete and Emine Sevgi Özdamar - Kate RoyDialogues with Islam in the Writings of (Turkish-)German Intellectuals: A Historical Turn? - Karin YesiladaMichaela Mihriban Özelsel's Pilgrimage to Mecca: A Journey to Her Inner Self - Edwin Paul WieringaIntimacies both Sacred and Profane: Islam in the Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Zafer Senocak, and Feridun Zaimoglu - Margaret LittlerEncountering Islam at Its Roots: Ilija Trojanow's Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam - Frauke MatthesThe Lure of the Loser: On Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Schreckens Männer and Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam - ShafiNotes on ContributorsIndex