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...Forough Jahanbakhsh Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Asef Bayat Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xxi + 291 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...Elizabeth R. Alexandrin Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas Samer Akkach Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005 288 pp., $80.00 (cloth), $25.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis...

...James Whidden The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt Michael Ezekiel Gasper Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009 294 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small crypto-faith...

... without any Muslim or Arab ancestry. Arab Muslim communities and identities in Brazil are formed by very complex articulations between transnational and local interpretations and practices of Islam and Arab identities, which emerge and gain reality within the cultural and sociological framework of each...

...Liv Tønnessen This article explores women's bargaining with a patriarchal Islamic state in Sudan. The article is situated within the realm of the literature on post-Islamism, which claims that Islamism becomes compelled both by its own internal contradictions and by societal pressure to reinvent...

...Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Scholarly interest in religio-political movements in the Muslim world has increased dramatically in recent times. Given the considerable variety of movements that are inspired by Islam, it is imperative that overly general and descriptive analyses be avoided in favor...

...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...

...: 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...

...Fauzia Gardezi Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2 (1990). Islam, Feminism, and the Women’s Movement in Pakistan: 19814991 Fauzia Gardezi It can be said that the women’s movement in movement becomes apparent. Of the small amount...

...Vasant Kaiwar Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 Sourh Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Science, Capitalism, and Islam Vasant Kaiwar Muslim society, bullied by the military might of science has “no epirtemologicalstanding CIS s&nce.”S the West, pushed...

...Jonathan T. Reynolds © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Islam, Politics and Women’s Rights Jonathan T Reynolds From 1950 to 1966, politics in Nigeria’s predomi- political question, the debate itself was carried out al- nantly Muslim...

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... forced into methods such as rote memorization chives, Britain’s Foreign Office records, Egyptian and Western in order to succeed, the very methods that European scholars studies on the relationships between the university and soci- criticized as being Islamic or oriental in origin. ety...