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Remaking Muslim politics : pluralism, contestation, democratization / Robert W. Hefner, editor.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.

xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm

Twelve essays examine the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long term prospects, implications for the West, & its lessons for our understanding of religion & politics in modern times.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Islam and politics -- Islamic countries.

Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries.

Religion and politics -- Islamic countries.

Islamic countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Hefner, Robert W., 1952-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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