TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration ix Contributors xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Modernity and the Remaking of Muslim Politics by Robert W. Hefner 1 CHAPTER 2: New Media in the Arab Middle East and the Emergence of Open Societies by Dale F. Eickelman 37 CHAPTER 3: Pluralism, Democracy, and the 'Ulama by Muhammad Qasim Zaman 60 CHAPTER 4: The End of Islamism? Turkey's Muslimhood Model by Jenny B.White 87 CHAPTER 5: Dilemmas of Reform and Democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Bahman Baktiari 112 CHAPTER 6: Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt's Hizb al-Wasat Augustus by Richard Norton 133 CHAPTER 7: Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics by Diane Singerman 161 CHAPTER 8: Empowering Civility through Nationalism: Reformist Islam and Belonging in Saudi Arabia by Gwenn Okruhlik 189 CHAPTER 9: An Islamic State Is a State Run by Good Muslims: Religion as a Way of Life and Not an Ideology in Afghanistan by Thomas Barfield 213 CHAPTER 10: Islam and the Cultural Politics of Legitimacy: Malaysia in the Aftermath of September 11 by Michael G. Peletz 240 CHAPTER 11: Muslim Democrats and Islamist Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia by Robert W. Hefner 273 CHAPTER 12: Sufis and Salafis: The Political Discourse of Transnational Islam by Peter Mandaville 302 CHAPTER 13: Pluralism and Normativity in French Islamic Reasoning by John R. Bowen 326 Index 347 Return to Book Description File created: 11/5/2009 |