The shaping of the current Islamic reformation / B.A. Roberson -- The politics of the umma : states and community in Islamic movements / Fred Halliday -- Sunni and Shiʻi networking in the Middle East / Annabelle Böttcher -- New centres and peripheries in European Islam? / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- From jurists' law to statue law or what happens when the Shariʼa is codified / Rudolph Peters -- Political aspects of modern Shiʻi legal discussions : Khumayni and Khuʼi on ijtihâd and qadaʼ / Robert Gleave -- Islamic law as a core for political law : the withering of an Islamist illusion / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Arab government responses to Islamic finance : the cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia / Rodney Wilson -- Islam interactive : Mediterranean Islamic expression on the World Wide Web / Gary R. Bunt -- Islamic activism and social movement theory : a new direction for research / Quintan Wiktorowicz
Summary
This book goes beyond the media presentation of the impact of Islam in the Middle East to consider the reality that lies behind it
Notes
"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation' of Mediterranean Politics (ISSN 1362-9395) 7/3 (Autumn 2002) published by Frank Cass"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-245) and index
