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<b>The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason</b>

To many a Western historian of religion, Islam is a problem – how could it have emerged <i>after</i> Christianity, the religion to end all religions? Its very geographic place belies the cliché on Orientalism: much more than belonging to the Orient, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the true union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-Strauss: