“…Devoted to research and scholarship in visual arts (of ancient Iran, contemporary and Islamic Iran)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Learning the lessons from the neo-revivalist and Wahhabi movements: The counterattack of new Sufi movements in the UK9. Popular Islam in northern Pakistan and its reconstruction in urban Britain; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”

“…Indonesia has been home to some of the most vibrant and complex developments in modern Islamic thought anywhere in the world. Nevertheless little is known or understood about these developments outside South East Asia. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eickelman -- 6. Political Islam in Iran and the emergence of a religious public sphere: the impact of September 11 / Mahmoud Alinejad -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The development of Islamic civilization to the eighteenth century -- The rise and expansion of Islam -- The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century -- The Ottoman and Safavid empires : a new imperial synthesis -- The beginnings of the era of transformation -- Forging a new synthesis : the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849 -- The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat -- Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century -- The response of Islamic society -- The era of the Young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists -- World War I and the end of the Ottoman order -- The struggle for independence : the interwar era to the end of World War II -- Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran -- The Arab struggle for independence : Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945 -- The Arab struggle for independence : Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945 -- The Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel -- The independent Middle East from the end of World War II to the 1970s -- Democracy and authoritarianism : Turkey and Iran -- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the Egyptian base -- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the radicalization of Arab politics -- Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s -- The resurgence of Islam : the Middle East from the 1970s to the 1991 -- Gulf war -- The Iranian revolution and the revival of Islam -- Changing patterns of war and peace : Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era -- The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq : the regimes of Hafiz Al-Asad and Saddam Husayn -- Challenges to the existing order : the Middle East in the 1990s and 2000s -- The Palestinian Intifada and the 1991 Gulf War -- A peace so near, a peace so far : Palestinian-Israeli relations since the 1991 Gulf War -- Patterns of continuity and change in Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon -- America's troubled moment in the Middle East -- The 2011 Arab uprisings and its aftermath…”

“…Giving voice to devout women and women of colour, Lépinard dissects hierarchies of privilege in feminist politics, grappling with Islam and Islamic veiling debates to understand how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectional politics, and the feminist collective subject…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jan Scholz, Max Stille, Ines Weinrich / Introduction -- Part I: Trajectories of Religious and Aesthetic Interpretations -- Lore Knapp / Religious Experience as Aesthetic Experience -- Annette Wilke / Classical Indian Aesthetics and rasa Theory: Observations on Embodied Rhetoric, Reader Response, and the Entanglement of Aesthetics and Religion in Hindu India -- Omaima Abou-Bakr / "Bride of the Quran": An Aesthetic Reading of Surat ar-Rahman -- Part II: Aesthetics of Islamic Sermons -- Tahera Qutbuddin / A Sermon on Piety by Imam AIT ibn AbT"falib: How the Rhythm of the Classical Arabic Oration Tacitly Persuaded -- Max Stille / Between the Numinous and the Melodramatic: Poetics of Heightened Feelings in Bengali Islamic Sermons -- Jan Scholz / Dramatic Islamic Preaching: A Close Reading of Amr Khalid -- Part III: Experiencing Religion in and through Literature -- Tony K. …”