Islam : critical concepts in sociology / edited by Bryan S. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Islam as religion and law -- The Qur'anic concept of God, the universe and man / Fazlur Rahman -- The Quran, the word of God, the source of knowlege and action / Syed Hossein Nazr -- The Qur'an / Fazlur Rahman -- Personal life, traits and practices of the prophet / Athar Husain -- Law as the hukm of Allah / Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee -- Hadith its importance, origin and development / M. Zubayr Siddiqi -- Eschatology / Fazlur Rahman -- The principles of ethics / Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi -- Islam : the concept of religion and the foundation of ethics and morality / S. Muhammad Naqib Al-Attas -- The spiritual states in Sufism / Syed Hossein Nazr -- Man and Islam / Ali Shariati -- The status of the individual in Islam / Fazlur Rahman -- Islam and image / Marshall G. S. Hodgson -- The concepts of peace and war in Islam / A. Abdulkadir Ahmed -- Ideology / Ali Shariati -- Religion and society : the example of Islam / Muhammad Arkoun -- A comparison of Islam and Christianity as frame-work for religious life / Marshall G. S. Hodgson --

v. 2. Islam, state and politics -- Reframing Orientalism : Weber and Islam / Mohammad R. Nafissi -- Islam and Marxism : some comparisons / Ernest Gellner -- Is there a Muslim society? Ernest Gellner's sociology of Islam / Sami Zubaida -- The revolt of Islam, 1700 to 1993 : comparative considerations and relations to imperialism / Nikki R. Keddie -- Civil society and Islam : a sociological perspective / Masoud Kamali -- Islam and the revolt of the petit bourgeoisie / Michael M. J. Fischer -- Post-bipolar order in crisis : the challenge of politicised Islam / Bassam Tibi -- Public Islam and the problem of democratization / Roert W. Hefner -- Parameters and strategies of Islam-state interaction in republican Turkey / Umit Cizre Sakallioglu -- The troubled triangle : populism, Islam and civil society in the Arab world / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Popular uprisings and Arab democratization / Larbi Sadiki -- Patronage, party, and state : the politicization of Islam in Turkey / Sencer Ayata -- Religion and politics in Egypt : the ulema of al-Azhar, radical Islam, and the state (1952-94) / Malika Zeghal -- The awakening of central Asian Islam / Igor Lipovsky -- Islam, minority status and citizenship : Muslim experience in India / Gopal Krishna -- Shi'ite Islam and the revolution in Iran / Said Amir Arjomand -- Killing (for) politics : jihad, martyrdom, and political action / Roxanne L. Euben -- Cosmopolitan virtue : on religion in a global age / Bryan S. Turner --

v. 3. Islam, gender and family -- The reform in family laws in the Muslim world / Muhammad Rashid Feroze -- Feminisme et islamisme dans le monde arabe : essai de synthese / Abdessamad Dialmy -- Women and the advent of Islam / Leila Ahmed -- Women's subordination in Turkey : is Islam really the villain? / Ayse Kadioglu -- Stretching the limits : a feminist reading of the Shari'a in post-Khomeini Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Abortion, Islam, and the 1994 Cairo population conference / Donna Lee Bowen -- Women in mystical Islam / Annemarie Schimmel -- The institution of a mut'a marriage in Iran : a formal and historical perspective / Shahla Haeri -- Reconstructing self and society : Javanese Muslim women and "the veil" / Suzanne Brenner -- Islam is the solution : Jordanian Islamists and the dilemma of the 'modern woman' / Lisa Taraki -- Women and Islam in Pakistan / Izzud-din Pal -- Egyptian discourses on gender and political liberalization : do secularist and Islamist views really differ? / Mervat F. Hatem -- State versus Islam : Malay families, women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong -- Reproductive choice in Islam : gender and state in Iran and Tunisia / Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer -- Universalization of particulars : the civic body and gendered citizenship in Iran / Minoo Moallem -- Women, nationalism and Islam in contemporary political discourse in Iran / Nahid Yeganeh -- Women, work, and ideology in the Islamic republic / Val Moghadam -- The public/private - the imagined boundary in the imagined nation/state/community : the Lebanese case / Suad Joseph --

v. 4. Islam and social movements -- The reconstruction of religious arenas in the framework of 'multiple modernities' / S. N. Eisenstadt -- Islam, the West, and the world / Immanuel Wallerstein -- A note on the transformation of religious symbols in Turkey / Serif Mardin -- Neo-Sufism reconsidered / R. S. O'Fahey and Bernd Radtke -- Politics and culture in Islamic globalism / Bryan S. Turner -- Islam and democracy : some conceptual and contemporary dimensions / Khurshid Ahmad -- Islam and modern European ideologies / Bassam Tibi -- Islamic opposition to the Islamic state : the Jama'at-i Islami, 1977-88 / Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr -- Islamic fundamentalist thought : an analysis of major theoretical formulations / M. A. Faksh -- From revolution to conservatism : some aspects of Mahdist ideology and politics in the Sudan / Gabriel R. Warburg -- The crisis of the imamate and the institution of the occultation in twelver Shi'ism : a sociohistorical perspective / Said Amir Arjomand -- Islamists and the thread of jihad : Hizb al-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun on Israel and the Jews / Suha Taji-Farouki -- Political Islam in Turkey : the rise and fall of the Refah party / H. Gulap -- From god of heaven to king of men : popular Islam among Turkish tribes from central Asia to Anatolia / Irene Melikoff -- Trajectories of political Islam : Egypt, Iran and Turkey / Sami Zubaida -- The accomodationists speak : goals and strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt / Sana Abed-Kotob -- Changing parameters of citizenship and claims-making : organized Islam in European public spheres / Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal -- Europe against Islam : Islam in Europe / T. Asad -- Object or subject? the paradox of "youth" in Turkey / Leyla Neyzi -- Changing images of three generations of Azharites in Indonesia / Mona Abaza.