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Tables of Contents for Modernizing Islam
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
viii
The Contributors
ix
Introduction: Modernizing Islam and Re-Islamization in Global Perspective
1
2
John L. Esposito
The challenge of political Islam
3
1
Issues and trends in global re-Islamization
3
3
Re-Islamization in the public sphere
6
5
Re-Islamization in Europe
11
6
Conclusion
Part I. ISSUES AND TRENDS IN GLOBAL RE-ISLAMIZATION
Veils and Obscuring Lenses
17
26
Francois Burgat
Islam and Reason
18
3
The Islamic reference between popular perceptions and state strategies
21
11
France's ``Muslim policy''
32
2
The Khelkhal syndrome
34
3
France's Muslim policy defying universality
37
2
Islam soluble in employment?
39
4
The Modernizing Force of Islamism
43
26
Bjorn Olav Utvik
The Middle East in the throes of change
44
1
Obscurantists with cellular phones?
45
5
Kindred spirit: Falwell or Cromwell?
50
4
Economic development as a divinely imposed duty
54
2
``Renewal of self'' ---not Westernization
56
1
Loyal to God only---the individualizing aspect of Islamism
57
4
Politics for the many
61
3
A modernizing force
64
5
Islam and Civil Society
69
34
John L. Esposito
Islam, democracy and civil society
70
1
Contemporary Muslim politics
71
1
Islam and the modern state
71
1
The challenge of Islamic revivalism
72
2
Democracy and civil society in the Muslim world
74
1
The quiet revolution: Islam and civil society
75
2
Political participation and civil society
77
10
Government responses to civil society in the post-Gulf War period
87
1
Threat or challenge to civil society?
88
1
A triple threat?
89
1
The diversity of Muslim politics
90
1
Civil society, democratization, and foreign policy
91
3
Islam and pluralism
94
2
The empowerment of Muslim women
96
7
Part II. RE-ISLAMIZATION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Islam and the Common Mortal
103
22
Fariba Adelkhah
Mohammad Khatami's election victory: break or continuity?
104
6
Funeral practices and the forming of a public space
110
8
Funeral practices and the creation of a political forum
118
7
A Return to the Shariah? Egyptian Judges and Referring to Islam
125
20
Baudouin Dupret
The reference to Islam in law and in judicial practice
126
5
Perspectives on Islam in law
131
5
The judge, the state, and the Shariah
136
9
Women's Islamic Activism: Between Self-Practices and Social Reform Efforts
145
22
Connie Caroe Christiansen
Angles of approach
146
4
Edifying Islamism
150
1
The dynamics of education
151
1
Technologies of self
152
1
Self-practices and social reform
153
3
A change of general conduct
156
3
Two categories of activism
159
3
Everyday life programmed
162
1
Objectified bodies
163
4
Islamization and Education in Egypt: Between Politics, Culture, and the Market
167
26
Linda Herrera
Liberalization, Islamization, and education
167
4
The battle over national education
171
2
Purging extremist teachers and thought from schools
173
3
Beyond militancy: school uniforms and the cultural politics of education
176
4
Private Islamic schools: between the state, non-state actors and the market
180
1
Negotiating gender: the school of an Islamic charitable association
181
4
Five star schooling: the commercialization of Islamic education
185
8
Part III. RE-ISLAMIZATION IN EUROPE
The Growing Islamization of Europe
193
22
Oussama Cherribi
The growth of Muslim communities in Europe
194
1
The increasing visibility of Islam in European public space
195
3
The role of media and new technology
198
1
The political mobilization of Muslim communities
199
7
Mobilization in comparative perspective
206
1
Conclusions
207
3
Epilogue: Life in Europe shortly after September 11, 2001
210
5
The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe: Representation and their Relationship with the State
215
36
Dilwar Hussain
Religion and state
217
1
Islam and Europe
218
2
A minority in Europe
220
3
Community-state Relations
223
22
Muslim representation in Europe
245
6
Muslim Minorities in Europe: The Silent Revolution
251
20
Jocelyne Cesari
Islam as a transnational religion
253
3
The emergence of a post-migration religious minority
256
3
The emergence of a Muslim individual
259
1
Privatization of Islam
260
4
Islam as a new form of citizenship
264
1
The Islamization of European political cultures
265
3
Pluralism as an issue
268
3
Index
271