{"product_id":"remaking-muslim-politics-pluralism-contestation-democratization-9780691120935","title":"Remaking Muslim Politics  Pluralism Contestation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. This book is a comparative study of Islam and democracy. The contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas Barfield, John R Bowen, Dale F Eickelman, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a most interesting and serious book on Islam. It is perhaps one of the most scholarly books on the topic since September 11.\"--As'ad AbuKhalil, Perspectives on Politics \"Remaking Muslim Politics remains ... an important work. It captures the wide breadth of civic-democratic Islamic voices with exhaustive detail in cross-national contexts.\"--Sean L. Yom, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359105843543,"sku":"9780691120935","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691120935.jpg?v=1754123611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remaking-muslim-politics-pluralism-contestation-democratization-9780691120935","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}