""Contents""; ""preface""; ""acknowledgments""; ""hard realities""; ""from imperialism to the new world order""; ""the strange career of pan- arabism""; ""the shaping of foreign policy""; ""military dictatorship and political tradition in the middle east""; ""profane and sacred politics""; ""islam as a political system""; ""jihad and the politics of salvation""; ""women in public life""; ""islam and human rights""; ""toward a conclusionã? between memory and desire""; ""notes""; ""a bibliographic note""; ""index""
