Abstract
Authors of this book discuss changes that are brought in to the light by cultural encounters in different times and contexts. Themes are conceptualized by interlinked concepts of ideas and identities, ideologies and religions and dynamics of language.
Authors cover long periods of human history from ancient Egypt to the present Islam based mainly in history, anthropology, islamology, egyptology and linguistics. Varied views enable to grasp common questions of intercultural communication and to captcher neverending process of intermingling of different cultures and civilizations.