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Cross and Crescent -- Contents -- Part One: Relating To Our Muslim Neighbours -- Part Two: Understanding Islam -- Part Three: Entering Into Discussion And Dialogue -- Part Four: Facing Fundamental Issues -- Part Five: Bearing Witness To Jesus -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- How are the challenges of Islam perceived? -- What is involved in Christian responses to Islam? -- Part One Relating to Our Muslim Neighbours -- 1. Meeting face to face -- Starting where we are -- The secret of real dialogue -- Greetings -- Visiting -- Visiting a mosque -- What should you do before going? -- What can you see at the mosque? -- What should you do after the visit? -- Where will all this lead? -- 2. Appreciating Islamic culture -- How can we begin to appreciate Muslim culture? -- Festivals -- Marriage and family life -- Diet -- Dress -- Social manners -- Comments on this description of Muslim culture -- What is special about Islamic culture? -- Some controversial aspects of Islamic culture -- The veil (hijab) -- Honour killings -- Female circumcision -- What do Muslims think about Western culture? -- Some basic dos and don'ts -- 3. Examining our attitudes -- 'Look at the way they persecute Christians!' -- 'Islam seems to be a religion of violence' -- 'Islam wants to rule the world!' -- 'If Christianity is true, then Islam is false' -- 'It's impossible to convert Muslims, and we shouldn't try anyway' -- 'Muslims seem to be very prejudiced and have closed minds' -- By his example -- By his teaching -- By his sending of the Holy Spirit -- Part Two Understanding Islam -- 4. What is Islam? -- The different faces of Islam -- Traditionalist, orthodox Islam -- Folk Islam or popular Islam -- Modernist/liberal Islam or Islamic modernism -- Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, radical or revivalist Islam -- Sufism

Further commentaries on our original target article add important new points and expand our understanding of the differences between animals, particularly between non-human and human primates. But whether they affirm or deny that humans are unique, all commentators agree that our special abilities mean we should be taking responsibility for the care of nature and the plants and animals it supports. We ask: is humankind doing this?

Our commentators come from many fields and disciplines and express highly divergent views, illustrating broad interest in the question. From the breadth of comments, we have identified two recurring themes, which we focus on here. The first is a preponderance of cautionary remarks about evaluating the differences between humans and nonhuman animals. The second concerns whether considering animals as worthy of moral consideration is one of many useful tools for conservationists trying to prevent extinction, habitat destruction, and climate change.

One harmful consequence of creating categories where one group is unique and superior to others is that it justifies committing negative, often atrocious, acts on the members of the inferior group. Correcting divisive human categorizations (racial superiority, gender superiority) has bettered society. Scholars have often claimed that humans are unique and superior to nonhuman animals. These claims need to be reevaluated. Many have already been refuted. Animals have been shown to outperform humans in many tasks, including cognitive ones. Here we raise the question: Has the false sense of superiority been used to justify human cruelty to animals?

This book is number two in a series for Primates in Fragments. In this volume, ten years after the first, we continue to address issues regarding primates within a fractured landscape. There are seven sections based on specific categories of primates in fragments. In the Introductory section, authors discuss the issues surrounding primates in remnant habitats as well as encourage discussion about what we mean by fragmentation on a landscape scale. In the Long-Term and Regional Studies section, authors present information on changes that have occurred during longer studies as well as changes that have occurred over regions. In the Landscape, Metapopulations and the Matrix section, authors cover topics from dry to moist forests, and from metapopulations to single species use of multiple fragments locations. In Feeding and Behavioral Ecology, authors take a closer look at the flexibility and responsiveness of primates in fragments in terms of their food choices, resource use, and behavioral changes. In Endemic, Endangered, and Nocturnal Primates authors uncover details involving critical primates living in major city centers to the heights of the Himalayas. In Genetics, Disease and Parasites authors cover topics including population viability, disease and parasite transmission between primates in fragments and humans. Finally, in the Conservation and Ecology: Threats and Management section, we synthesize information in this volume and make recommendations for the future of work in this field and the survivability of primates in fragments

1. What do we know about mammal movement in African tropical forests? -- 2. Movements patterns and population dynamics of giant forest hog groups in Kibale National Park, Uganda -- 3. Forest elephant movements in Central Africa – megafauna need megaspaces -- 4. Elephant movements, abundance and use of water sources in Kibale National Park, Uganda -- 5. Movement ecology and evolutionary history of forest buffalo -- 6. Site fidelity and home range shifts in a leaf-eating primate -- 7. Primate movements across the nutritional landscapes of Africa -- 8. Conditions facilitating a "landscape of fear from disease" in African forest mammals -- 9. Do seasonally frugivory and cognition shape foraging movements in wild western gorillas? -- 10. Females Move in Tight Crowds, Males Roam: Society and Movement Ecology of Mandrills -- 11. Linking Movement Ecology to Conservation Biology.