State Islam and Communal Plurality

In this paper, I outline the history of Pakistan's experience with "Islamic" laws and their impact on women. I also trace the links between the state, nationalism, religion, and women's organizations, and demonstrate how they have shaped women's…

The Persatuan Islam (Islamic-Union) was a small group of Indonesian Muslim activists during the period from 1923-1957. Their efforts involved them in the great disputes of the time, namely the shape of the emerging Indonesian state as the region…

The recent rise of political Islam in Turkey is examined in terms of a complex interplay between four major processes: the policies of the parties on the center right toward religion; state-sponsored religious activities and the consolidation of…

Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of…

This paper offers a macropolitical framework to analyze shifts in the gender policy of the Tunisian state. Throughout the twentieth century, the status of women in Tunisia has been caught up in political wars fought largely over other issues such as…

Informal power structures in Russia and ethno-political conflict in the northern Caucasus Maxim U. Barbashin - Islam and the legal system in the north-western Caucasus Irina L. Babich - "Re-Islamisation" and ethno-nationalism : the Circassians…

What should be the place of ShariaIslamic religious lawin predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Sharia, based on a…

This book (...) argues that the state- imposed ideology of Kemalist secularism was gradually transformed into a civil ideology as a result of the reproduction and popularization of this fear by the political and intellectual elite.

The past two decades have seen a tremendous increase in research and scholarship devoted to personal relationships. From rather scattered beginnings a recognizable and recognized field has emerged, whose strength and health is reflected in a wide…

In recent years, many on the left, including those in global social movements, have looked towards the pink tide in Latin America as a new bastion of hope. We are talking of that wave of countries from Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil, to Bolivia,…