ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that a considerate concern towards Islam flows into multicultural and progressive Left-leaning opinion in the West. Despite all the disadvantages that it was up against, it is still remarkable to see the tremendous influence of Edmund Burke. Conor Cruise O'Brien places many of Burke's speeches and writings into what he terms the great melody' of Edmund Burke. While Burke is not usually associated as a philosopher of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the discussion of this last section of the chapter has paved the way for a consideration of Burke understood as one of the significant figures of the Islamic component of the English Enlightenment. More specifically this work will try to locate the effects of Burke's lament on the protection and preservation of Islamic and Muslim beliefs and practices that bring out Burke's attitudes towards Islam and Muslims.
