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Remaking Muslim politics : pluralism, contestation, democratization

There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading specialists focusing on individual countries, this pioneering book examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implicat
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2005
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Introduction : Modernity and the remaking of Muslim politics / Robert W. Hefner
New media in the Arab Middle East and the emergence of open societies / Dale F. Eickelman
Pluralism, democracy, and the ʻUlama / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
The end of Islamism? Turkey's Muslimhood model / Jenny B. White
Dilemmas of reform and democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Bahman Baktiari
Thwarted politics : the case of Egypt's Hizb al-Wasat / Augustus Richard Norton
Rewriting divorce in Egypt : reclaiming Islam, legal activism, and coalition politics / Diane Singerman
Empowering civility through nationalism : reformist Islam and belonging in Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik
An Islamic state is a state run by good Muslims : religion as a way of life and not an ideology in Afghanistan / Thomas Barfield
Islam and the cultural politics of legitimacy : Malaysia in the aftermath of September 11 / Michael G. Peletz
Muslim democrats and Islamist violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner
Sufis and Salafis : the political discourse of transnational Islam / Peter Mandaville
Pluralism and normativity in French Islamic reasoning / John R. Bowen
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