Intro -- CONTENTS -- Note on Transliteration -- Preface Public Islam and the Common Good -- PART I THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- Chapter One Muslim Publics -- Chapter Two Secrecy and Publicity in the South Asian Public Arena -- Chapter Three Technological Mediation and the Emergence of Transnational Muslim Publics -- PART II THE HISTORICAL EMERGENCE OF PUBLICS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- Chapter Four Coffeehouses: Public Opinion in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Five Gender, Consumption, and Patriotism: The Emergence of an Ottoman Public Sphere -- PART III RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND THE COMMON GOOD -- Chapter Six The Ulama of Contemporary Islam and their Conceptions of the Common Good -- Chapter Seven When Disputes Turn Public: Heresy, the Common Good, and the State in South India -- PART IV AMBIVALENCE IN THE PRACTICE AND PUBLIC STAGING OF ISLAM -- Chapter Eight The Limits of the Public: Sufism and the Religious Debate in Syria -- Chapter Nine Islam and Public Piety in Mali -- Chapter Ten Framing the Public Sphere: Iranian Women in the Islamic Republic -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Note on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Anthropologists and scholars of literature mostly from the US and Europe, but also one each from Turkey and Brazil, explore the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. They look at the diverse invocations of Islam as ideas and practices in civic debate and public life by religious scholars, self-ascribed religious authorities, secular.

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