1. Introduction: Modernity and the Remaking of Muslim Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transliteration ix
5. Contributors xi
6. 1. Introduction: Modernity and the Remaking of Muslim Politics 1
7. 2. New Media in the Arab Middle East and the Emergence of Open Societies 37
8. 3. Pluralism, Democracy, and the ‘Ulama 60
9. 4. The End of Islamism? Turkey’s Muslimhood Model 87
10. 5. Dilemmas of Reform and Democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran 112
11. 6. Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt’s Hizb al-Wasat 133
12. 7. Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics 161
13. 8. Empowering Civility through Nationalism: Reformist Islam and Belonging in Saudi Arabia 189
14. 9. An Islamic State Is a State Run by Good Muslims: Religion as a Way of Life and Not an Ideology in Afghanistan 213
15. 10. Islam and the Cultural Politics of Legitimacy: Malaysia in the Aftermath of September 11 240
16. 11. Muslim Democrats and Islamist Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia 273
17. 12. Sufis and Salafis: The Political Discourse of Transnational Islam 302
18. 13. Pluralism and Normativity in French Islamic Reasoning 326
19. Index 347