The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy hammered out an ambitious plan to extend its message, issuing a six-volume encyclopedia on Islamic movements and embarking on a number of important research projects. Believing in the need to interact with all intellectual and political currents, the center accepted the offer of Sa’d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm’s Ibn Khaldun Center to issue an anthology of books in Arabic to acquaint the West with Islam, the first of which was Islam and the freedoms of opinion and expression, to be translated into English and distributed in the United States and Western Europe.