... theory and westernization movements in postcolonial Muslim societies, as well as the Cold War superpower competition in world politics. Finally, the article reflects on the long-term legacy of the civilizational thinking of Islamism for the post–Cold War clash of civilization discourses and contemporary...

...ALI RIAZ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 “God Willing”: The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh ALI RIAZ “God willing, we shall form the next government,” in politics. Thirty years later an election had brought a declared Khaleda Zia...

...Jillali El Adnani Duke University Press 2007 Regionalism, Islamism, and Amazigh Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi Jillali El Adnani he Sûs region at the center of this article has been marked by the passage...

...Sadik J. Al-Azm The phenomena of orientalism, occidentalism, and Islamism are at play in a variety of contexts today. This intervention, while not a systematic essay on the subject, presents a kind of collage of analyses, observations, criticisms, and commentaries dealing with several conventional...

... m: Introduction: Secularism and Islamism: Iran and Beyond lami s Is Saeed Rahnema and Haideh...

...Buket Türkmen This article discusses the meaning of the formulation of a new Turkish civic morality infused with Islam in contemporary Turkey through a content analysis of the 1995 and 2007–08 editions of Religious Culture and Morality course textbooks used in high school curricula. I argue...

...Chaider S. Bamualim The article discusses a particular Islamist militant movement in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI). Gaining considerable following and influence in post-Suharto Indonesia, the FPI called for the implementation of Sharia law addressing...

...Trent Maxey The Islamic Middle East and Japan: Perceptions, Aspirations, and the Birth of Intra-Asian Modernity Reneé Worringer, ed. Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener, 2007 163 pp., $68.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2007 Multiculturalism, Muslims, and Citizenship...

...Valerie J. Hoffman Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast Kai Kresse Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Library, London, 2007 xvi, 288 pp., $120.00 (cloth), £70.00, (paper) Duke University Press 2011...

...Paul Sedra The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State Scott Rachel M. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 xiii + 277 pp. , $65.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Torsten Janson This study analyzes Islamic children’s picture books that were originally produced as a means of religious socialization for Muslim communities in Britain but today are created for a global Islamic market. Particular attention is devoted to the visual norms of the books produced...

...). Unless noted otherwise, all translations are those of the author. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Illustrating an Islamic Childhood in Syria: Pious Subjects and Religious Authority in Twelver Shi’i Children’s Books Edith Szanto hi’i children’s books have only...

...: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany Beverly M. Weber he ongoing and contentious debates on the presence of the hijab in public space...

... policy which can be partly explained by a distinctive factor: the commitment of the post–General Zia state (or part of it) to a militant version of Islam. Pakistan owes its being to Islam. In August, 1947, the eastern border of the new state was opened to the flow of Muslim refugees from India. Even...

...Dina Le Gall Contested Conversions to Islam: Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Krstić Tijana . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xvi + 264 pp., $60.00 (cloth) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

... and religion, through trade and Islam. He examines this evolution, as human beings and the products they carried started to connect these two places across the breadth of the Indian Ocean world. He also looks at how imperial energies unleashed in a later time period (primarily the nineteenth century) brought...

... to spatially bounded analytical frames, Ghazal proposes, is the network. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 networks Ibadism Middle East Mediterranean Africa Indian Ocean Zanzibar al-Busaidi Empire Mzab Nahda Islamic Reform print Arabic press area studies Funding...

... manifestations of Islam in West Africa within the epistemologies of the global intellectual economies of Islam, the colonial library, and the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition. The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa By Ware Rudolph T. III Chapel...

...Robert Launay Ware's impassioned condemnation of the idea of Islam noir is a reaction to its unfortunate consequences for the scholarly study of Africa and of Islam: the marginalization of Islam in the study of Africa and of Africa in the study of Islam. On the other hand, if we attempt...

...Zachary Wright The publication of Rudolph Ware's The Walking Qur'an revives the debate surrounding fundamentally divergent understandings of Islamic identity, the epistemological divide between Salafism and traditionally trained African Muslim scholars. This article extends Ware's findings...