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Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction

Modernity and the study of Islam Structure of the volume

Traditions and transformations Themes and trends Case studies

The current moment

Part I: Traditions and transformations

1. Scripture in the modern Muslim world: the Quran and Hadith

Introduction: modernity and the global challenge to scripture The pre-modern heritage of scripture in Islam Setting the stage for modern Islamic thought Modern Muslim schools of thought on scripture

Islamic modernists Modernist Salafis Traditionalist Salafis Late Sunni traditionalists

Conclusion

2. Ethical landscape: laws, norms, and morality

Outline Introduction Everyday life Global debates The family Sexuality and intimacy Innovation Conclusion

3. Governance and government

Outline The challenges of governance

Appeal to religious law Religious leadership Religious community: Ulama, Sufis, Islamists

Ulama Sufis Islamists

Variation in national response Conclusion

4. From Isfahan to the internet: Islamic theology in the global village

Foundations of modern Islamic theology Nineteenth-century theology: Afghani and ‘Abduh “Islam is the answer”: Islamist theologies in the twentieth century Shi’a theologies of revival and reform Islamic theology and Muslim minorities Feminist theologies: Islamist and liberal reformist Postscript: modern Islamic theology in the global village

5. Piety and devotion

Spiritual intermediaries Sufism defined and in history Criticisms of Sufism European Orientalist views of Sufism Sufism and colonialism Distinctive local histories of Sufism Globalization and Sufism New Sufi-style teachings Women Sufi leaders US political interest in Sufism

6. The multiple faces of Islamic education in a secular age

The notion of education in the Islamic tradition: the pre-modern context The rupture of modern times: the distinction between secular and religious knowledge Reforming education: bringing Islam into the world The crucial role of religious education in the wider reforms of education The loss of legitimacy and the transformation of Islamic education The transformation of contents and the expansion of religious education: a new hybrid? State reforms and the marginalization of Islamic education The domestication of Islam and the quest for autonomy New religious authorities and the expansion of Islamic knowledge Islamic education’s reputation after 9/11

Part II: Themes and trends

7. Women and gender in the Muslim world

Outline Nationalism and women Women, Islamist movements, and family law Patterns of women’s social participation Conclusions: women’s rights campaigns in the Muslim world

8. #Islam, social networking and the cloud

Outline Approaching Islam and cyberspace Muslim expression in cyberspace Accessing religious authority online The multimedia Sufi The networked e-jihadi The online activists Conclusions

9. Islam: unbound and global

Outline Background Overview The new cohort of Muslim cosmopolitans Looking beyond a singular Islam: the punching bag of pundits and Islamophobes Conclusion

10. Militant movements

Violence and terrorism: the “great reversal” The Muslim Brothers and related groups

Muslim Brothers: Egypt Egypt: militant offshoots Jordan and Syria: Muslim Brothers Palestine and Israel: Muslim Brothers and Hamas

Shi’i movements: Iran, Lebanon, Iraq

Iran: Revolution Lebanon: Hizbullah Iraq: the Mahdi Army

Afghanistan: Taleban and al-Qaeda

Taleban Al-Qaeda

Other groups and movements

Pakistan: Mawdudi and the Jama’at-i Islami Pakistan: Lashkar-e Taiba Algeria Chechnya Indonesia

Justifications for violence Some closing thoughts

11. Secularization and the search for an authentic Muslim modern

Introduction Roots of the secular and secularization Modernization, social change, and cultural reform Muslim identity and the politics of the nation-state Discontent with modernity and the secular Conclusion

12. Islam and popular culture

Outline Introduction The Muslim public sphere Cultural practices Islamic consumer culture Muslim popular culture in the twenty-first century

Part III: Case studies of tradition and change

13. The emergence of media preachers: Yusuf al-Qaradawi

New forms and technologies of Islamic discussions and authority The story of Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Biography “Shari’a and Life”: a program and a concept Niqab in Europe and the fiqh of Muslim minorities

Muslim preachers: a global phenomenon?

Amr Khaled (Egypt and the Arab world) K.H. Abdullah Gymnastiar (Gym) (Indonesia) Junaid Jamshed (Pakistan) Farhat Hashmi (Pakistan/Canada)

Conclusion

14. Assertive secularism, Islam and democracy in Turkey

Outline Islam, secularism, and democracy Assertive secularists vs. the center-right Assertive secularists vs. Islamists Assertive secularists vs. passive secularists

Assertive secularists and the JDP cooperating for the EU reforms De-democratization attempt: the e-coup De-democratization attempt: the judicial coup The conservative-liberal cooperation: de-militarization

Conclusion

15. The new Muslim Europe

Outline Immigration and settlement Organization Recognition Changing generations

16. Routinizing the Iranian Revolution

Outline Islamic Revolution of 1979 First: uncompromising independence and sovereignty Second: the right to rebel against injustice, discrimination, and corruption Third: a quest for freedom and the right to rebel against oppression, censorship, and coercion Fourth: the call for the end of autocratic monarchy and secular dictatorship Fifth: the demand for Islamic teachings in the public domain Ayatollah Khomeini: spiritual architect of the Islamic Republic of Iran Background of custodial rule of the jurist (wilayat al-faqih) Hardliner domination Ayatollah Khomeini: a complex revolutionary cleric After Khomeini

17. Muslim advocacy in America

Introduction The evolution of national religious advocacy in politics Associational life

Early years Later years

Contemporary Muslim American organizations

Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Association of Muslim Lawyers/Muslim Advocates Assembly of Turkic American Federations (ATAF)

Conclusion

18. Women and Islamic law in Bangladesh: finding a space for the fatwa

Introduction

“Fanatics with wrong views” From shari’a to code

Islamic law in Bangladesh

MFLO, 1961

The perspective of women’s rights activists Competing legal forums

Salish and fatwa Regulation by the state

Concluding remarks

19. Far from Mecca: modern Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia

Outline Unfinished Islamization process Traditionalist and modernist Muslims Muhammadiyah, NU, and Islamists in the Pancasila state Progressive Muslims in Indonesia Malay Muslims in the Islamic federal state of Malaysia Conservative and reformist ulama UMNO, PAS, and politics of Islamization Progressive Muslims in Malaysia Conclusion

20. Politics and Islamization in African public spheres

Outline Public Islam and Muslim publics Postcolonial public spheres and Islam

Politics of identity Islamization of the public sphere Islamic law and critical activism

Conclusion

Appendix: maps and tables Index

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