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Letters To The Editor "Western and Muslim scholars who are concerned with the study of Islamic societies have often found it difficult to find a common language.
With the publication of The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, it should now be possible to narrow that gap.
Here Muslim scholars can write about their own societies, using concepts and methods that are familiar to their Western col-leagues.
At the same time, they bring to their study an understanding of Islam as a body of religious beliefs and as a civilization.
The result is a healthy con-tribution to a better understanding between East and West?' William B.
Quandt Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.
C. "I would like to congratulate you on your newly established journal, "American Journal of Islamic Studies?' I do believe that it will fill in a gap in the collec-tion of scientific American periodicals, and enhance the mutual understan-ding and cooperation between the American people and the Islamic Ummah.
ISESCO has its own journal as well, "Islam Today," and it gives me much pleasure to enclose herewith the first two issues, hoping that we start exchanging our publications as a first step of cooperation, and that you will kindly con-tribute an article to one of the future issues of "Islam Today?' Prof.
Abdelhadi BOUTALEB