Foreword / Charles Issawi -- Preface / Suad Joseph & Barbara L.K. Pillsbury -- Muslim-Christian conflicts: a theoretical perspective / Suad Joseph -- Muslim-Christian conflict in Lebanon: a perspective on the evolution of sectarianism / Suad Joseph -- Peasants and social protest: 1975-1976 Lebanese civil war / Laurel D. Mailloux -- The Copts and Muslims of Egypt / Makram Samaan & Soheir Sukkary -- Sudan civil wars: religion, colonialism, and the world system / Sondra Hale -- The Bosnian Muslims: class, ethnicity, and political behavior in a European state / Robert Donia & William G. Lockwood -- Bicommunal separatism in Cyprus / Peter S. Allen