ABSTRACT
In this final section of our book we move toward the geographical centre ground, that is to the Middle East, the birth place of the world’s three great monotheist religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. While, on the one hand, the region today remains a troubled part of the world, in such countries today as Syria, Libya and the Yemen, on the other hand this is the time of the so-called Arab Spring. Meanwhile Islam (1) which predominates in the Arab world, of all three monotheist religions, is the one that most purports to occupy the centre ground (2), that is in between not only Judaism and Christianity, but also Eastern holism and Western pragmatism, Northern rationalism and Southern humanism. At the very heart of Islam is the Muslim’s holy Qur’an.
