...Esin Düzel Abstract Beauty can be a source of self-making within a political community, and that self can display moral autonomy via publicly visible and invisible practices while still adhering to a community. At a time of transition during the early 2000s from militarized resistance to urban...

...Michael J. Watts Abstract Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk...

.... Secularism must deny (c). Second, (d) Several arguments can be proffered to justify sepa- given the truth of a part of (b), namely, that the re- ration. Consider first the argument from the value ligious and non-religious can be distinguished, we of autonomy. Religious and political institutions must...

... fundamentalism has ject for autonomy recognizes the necessity of a found its counterpart in the ideological messianism worldly space in which freedom is allowed to make of neo-conservative designs on the rest of the globe, its appearance, a space that is both the condition and and a reactionary moralism...

...-that is, if the siderable, though less than fully federal, autonomy to secession is minority based-though even here, of nine multi-ethnic provinces, but refuses any notion of course, not anything will be justified in stopping it. specifically ethnic autonomy or of secession. In what The moral is a simple one...

... Mahmood Mamdani • A Critique of Eurocentrism: Then and Now 175 proposed by the United States as the antithesis of dignity of the formerly colonized,” a demand for the “democratic federalism” that he championed political autonomy and for “the right to speak for (189). For D’Arboussier, the future...

... aspects of some of the less-developed Middle Nora Hamilton, the possibilities of state autonomy Eastern polities where tribal population is still a sig- from social classes in civil society are substantially nificant force. In Saudi Arabia, the ruling elite still increased. 1 1 enjoy the support...

... moral crisis in which individuals and entire social their hierarchies and institutions. However, the policy of groups seek spiritual comfort in religion, both in tradi- the state towards religion changed over time. It was tional denominations and in new sects and millenarian relatively tolerant...

... downplayed some of the most critical and innovative moral and political thinking of the anticolonial world in the twentieth century, to its detriment. In its asymmetrical rendering as a form of reason distilled through nineteenth-century moral precepts and, later, empire, international relations seems unduly...

... the powerful tensions individual autonomy), even as they increasingly between the particular and the universal, between sought to challenge the practical injustices of Brit- periphery and center, that had long been central ish central power, often through the mobilization...

...Eric Lewis Beverley Abstract Large zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty...

... of relationships to oth- viduals, political organizations, and communities ers, politics, culture, and economy that exceed the on the ends of politics; the moral contours and related prescriptions emanating from Europe. The political structures that provide the contexts for practices of officeholders...

... no objection to mixing with vidualism, such as women’s autonomy and freedom men provided that it take place within a frame- of choice, specifically in relation to the hijab and work of respect for morals and religion. the choice of marriage partner, as well as a prefer...

...” materialized, this article seeks to investigate what moral expectations, normative standards, and gendered subjectivities this narrative generates. The Kurdish case reveals how narratives of empowerment form a crucial part of the moral and gendered bargains that sustain and legitimate resistance movements...

...Elektra Kostopoulou This article aims to revisit autonomy and decentralization in the nineteenth century as dynamics that captured the hybrid position of the Ottomans in the rapidly changing regional and international contexts. Addressing briefly a number of different examples, the article argues...

... The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Gio­ of theory, which keeps the latter away from the em- vanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. pirical on the one hand and the moral subject on Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by Joan the other. Theory...

... economics is based on the norms, moral values and economics in general it is pertinent to define clearly and traditions of Islamic religion, and hence it is sepa- the term Islam in its origins and in its historical devel- rate from the modern science of economics (Ahmad...

... and one school of thought deems the defini- forms the kernel of a national identity. Religion is a tions of other schools as apostasy. Maulana Husain reference point par excelhce in any traditional society Alimed Madani (1879- 1957), an eminent theologian with a great tradition as a morally...

...”-or issues of morality and cul- 1970s and early 1980s. tural identity-to divert attention from economic The third element of the framework is social problems or political corruption (Imam 1994). change. Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are develop- States that base and legitimize their own power...

... of the autonomy and the heteronomy of the self through a propagation of “virtue ethics” (82). If we are to characterize Freudian psychoanalysis as a desiring dialectic—and it serves El Shakry's argument to reduce it to “a theory of desire” (80)—the Islamic tradition brings to it “ethical attunement” (82). However...