Although we can say that both Christian and Enlightenment traditions feed modern liberalism, they are faced today by societies in the West that are extremely diverse, containing a number of histories and traditions that make a claim on identity and representation. If the Enlightenment paradigm is often the stick used to beat the "unenlightened" Muslim subjects of Western multicultural states, then a stronger sense of a shared narrative lineage—including but going beyond the recognition that many biblical and Quranic stories have the same Abrahamic roots—becomes necessary.

XREF: Connects to debates about multicultural liberalism, postcolonial critique of Enlightenment universalism, and interfaith dialogue rooted in Abrahamic traditions.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 507