1. Islam encountering globalization: an introduction / Mike Featherstone -- 2. West encountering Islam: Islamophobia reconsidered / Fred Halliday -- 3. Muslim encounters with new media: towards an inter-civilizational discourse on globality? / Karim H. Karim -- 4. Reimagining the Ummah? Information technology and the changing boundaries of political Islam / Peter G. Mandaville -- 5. Islam and human rights in the age of globalization / Mahmood Monshipouri -- 6. The culture and politics of human rights in the context of Islam / Ali Mohammadi -- 7. The globalization of rights in Islamic discourse / Charles Kurzman -- 8. The World Cup and Iranians' 'home-coming': a global game in a local Islamicized context / Manuchehr Sanadjian -- 9. Globalization and the underdeveloped Muslim world: a case study of Pakistan / Muhammad Ahsan -- 10. Tradition versus ideology as a mode of political communication in Iran / Ali Mohammadi