Despite an evaluation by an international peer-review committee that rated The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) as an excellently performing, internationally leading institute in its field, the institute has been closed as per 1 January 2009, due to the lack of adequate funding. ISIM was set up ten years ago by the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen, and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The objective of the institute has been to carry out innovative research into the social, political, cultural and intellectual trends and movements in present-day Muslim communities and societies worldwide.
ISIM Review

The ISIM Review carries research articles by scholars throughout the world, enabling its readers to follow trends in research and offering background information on current developments and events relevant to Islam and Muslim societies. In 2005 the name of the ISIM Newsletter has been changed to ISIM Review to more accurately reflect the publication’s objective of providing a review of debates and research on contemporary Muslim societies and communities in an accessible manner to a broad readership.
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A Selection of 10 years ISIM Newsletter/Review in Dutch
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ISIM Newsletter 1 – 12

• No. 1 – October 1998
• No. 2 – March 1999
• No. 3 – July 1999
• No. 4 – December 1999
• No. 5 – June 2000
• No. 6 – October 2000
• No. 7 – March 2001
• No. 8 – September 2001
• No. 9 – January 2002
• No.10 – July 2002
• No.11 – December 2002
• No.12 – June 2003

ISIM Newsletter 13, December 2003
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Table of Contents

• 4 Editorial / Dick Douwes
• 5 The Use and Abuse of ‘Muslim Societies’ / Asef Bayat
• 6 Shirin Ebadi: Transcender of Divisive Boundaries / Nazanin Shahrokni
• 8 The World Congress of Philosophy and Islamic Thought / Ibrahim Kalin
• 10 Accommodating Muslims in Europe: Opportunities for Minority Fiqh / Maleiha Malik
• 12 Settling Disputes in Upper Egypt / Hans Chr. Korsholm Nielsen
• 14 Women’s Portable Habitats / Z. Pamela Karimi
• 16 Banning Face Veiling: The Boundaries of Liberal Education / Linda Herrera & Annelies Moors
• 18 Muslim Girls in Belgium: Individual Freedom through Religion? / Nadia Fadil
• 20 Training Imams and the Future of Islam in France / Frank Peter
• 22 Public Institutions and Islam: A New Stigmatization? / Laurent Bonnefoy
• 24 Iraq after the US Invasion / Peter Sluglett
• 26 From One War to Another: Iraqi Emigration to Jordan / Géraldine Chatelard
• 28 The Revival of Henna Night in Cairo / IkRan Eum
• 30 Islamic Voluntary Welfare Activism in Jordan / Egbert Harmsen
• 32 Edward Said and Islam / Ferial J. Ghazoul
• 33 Edward Said in the Netherlands / Peter van der Veer
• 34 Edward Said and Palestine / Mouin Rabbani
• 36 Edward Said and Eqbal Ahmad / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
• 38 Salafi in Virtual and Physical Reality / Philip Halldén
• 39 Living in the Satellite Bubble: Palestinian-Americans in Chicago / Dwan Kaoukji
• 40 Is There a Church in Islam? / Mark Sedgwick
• 42 The Tablighi Jama’at and Politics / Yoginder Sikand
• 44 Ascendance of Jama’at-e-Islami in Bangladesh / Sreeradha Datta
• 45 Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures / Suad Joseph
• 46 From Apartheid to Democracy: Islam in South Africa / Ursula Günther
• 48 What is Progressive Islam? / Omid Safi
• 50 Field Research, Research Design and the Tehran Bazaar / Arang Keshavarzian
• 52 The Public Sphere and Public Islam / Armando Salvatore & Dale F. Eickelman
• 53 ISIM Info Pages
• 56 Rights at Home Project: Capacity Building Workshops in Yemen and Tanzania
• 58 Rights at Home Project: Small Ripples in Tanzania / Salma Maoulidi
• 59 What Happened: Telling Stories about Law in Muslim Societies / Léon Buskens & Annelies Moors
• 60 Migrant Domestic Workers: Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere? / Annelies Moors
• 61 (Inter)textuality: Interactive Cultural Practices / Nasr Abu Zayd
• 62 Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam / Martin van Bruinessen
• 63 Veiled Politics: Rethinking the Debate on Hijab / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
• 64 Editor’s Pick
• 65 Waanzee! When Religion Becomes Merciless / Maria Soaad Bouanani
• 66 Under the Same Sky: Cairo
• 67 Last Summer in Bagdad
• 68 Photo Commentary

ISIM Newsletter 14, June 2004
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Table of Contents

-ISIM

• 4 Editorial
• 5 The Art of Presence / Asef Bayat

-Martyrdom

• 6 A Culture of Righteousness and Martyrdom / Elliot Colla
• 8 Suicide Attacks: Life as a Weapon / Riaz Hassan
• 10 Martyrdom and Resistance in the Middle East / Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf

-Politics

• 11 Terrorism in Europe / Farhad Khosrokhavar
• 12 Iraq as Lebanon: Fears for the Future / Charles Tripp
• 13 Memories of Havana in Desert Refugee Camps / Nicolien Zuijdgeest

-Multiculturalism and Integration

• 14 Multiculturalism through Spirit Possession / Kjersti Larsen
• 16 American Muslims: Race, Religion and the Nation / Karen Isaksen Leonard
• 18 Integration and Islamic Education in South Africa / Samadia Sadouni

-Identity & Culture

• 20 Islamic Knowledge in Ukraine / Alexander Bogomolov
• 22 Religion in Post-Communist Albania / Ina Merdjanova
• 24 History and Identity among the Hemshin / Hovann H. Simonian

-Political Participation & Activism

• 26 The Leftists and Islamists in Egypt / Maha Abdelrahman
• 28 Female Religious Professionals in France / Amel Boubekeur
• 30 Human Rights, Women and Islam / Shirin Ebadi
• 33 Women, Politics and Islam in Kuwait / Helen Rizzo
• 34 Conceptualizing Islamic Activism / Quintan Wiktorowizc

-Arts, Media & Society

• 36 Art Education in Iran: Women’s Voices / Mehri Honarbin-Holliday
• 38 The Poet and the Prophet / Abdou Filali-Ansary
• 40 Culture, Power and Poetry in Shiraz / Setrag Manoukian
• 42 Islam Takes a Hit / Daniel Martin Varisco
• 44 Urban Islam: Rethinking the Familiar / Mirjam Shatanawi & Deniz Unsal

-Islam, Society & the State

• 45 The Headscarf and the “Neutral” Welfare State / Deniz Coskun
• 46 Al-Azhar in the Post 9/11 Era / Elena Arigita
• 48 Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Central Asia / Sébastian Peyrouse
• 50 African Muslims and the Secular State / Donal B. Cruise O’Brien
• 51 Islamic Associations and the Middle Class in Jordan / Janine A. Clark

-ISIM Info Pages

• 52 ISIM at MESA 2004
• 53 Millî Görüs in Western Europe / Martin van Bruinessen
• 54 Saudi Futures / Gerd Nonneman
• 55 Religion and Transformation in West Africa / Hajj Mumuni Sulemana
• 56 Madrasa in Asia / Yoginder Sikand
• 57 European Islam and Tariq Ramadan / Alexandre Caeiro
• 58 Editors’ Pick

-Arts

• 59 Qajar Reinterpreted

ISIM Review 15, Spring 2005
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Table of Contents

– ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Dick Douwes and Linda Herrera
• 5 Letters to the Editors

– Debates on Islam in Europe

• 6 A Clash of Cultures or a Debate on Europe’s Values? / Olivier Roy
• 8 Submission / Annelies Moors
• 10 Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the Netherlands / Halleh Ghorashi
• 11 Transnational Islam in Western Europe / Ralph Grillo & Benjamin F. Soares

– Politics

• 12 Theses on Religion and Violence / Bruce Lincoln
• 13 The Beslan Massacre / Vladimir Bobrovnikov
• 14 Darfur in War: The Politicization of Ethnic Identities? / Karin Willemse
• 16 Jihadi Opposition in Saudi Arabia / Roel Meijer
• 17 Post-Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia? / Stéphane Lacroix

– Minorities & Migration

• 18 Conversion and Conflict: Muslims in Mexico / Natascha Garvin
• 20 The Veil and Fashion Catwalks in Paris / Alec H. Balasescu
• 21 Conflicts Among Hawaii’s Muslims / Mona Darwich-Gatto

– Education

• 22 Academic Freedom Post-9/11 / Beshara Doumani
• 24 From Showcase to Basket Case: Education in Iraq / Nabil Al-Tikriti
• 26 Islamist Responses to Educational Reform / Johannes Grundmann

– Arts & Media

• 28 Mahmoud Darwish: Hope as Home in the Eye of the Storm / Ashwani Saith
• 30 Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media / Lila Abu-Lughod
• 32 Courtesans in the Living Room / Kamran Asdar Ali
• 34 Bahibb Issima: Copts and the Public Sphere / Samia Mehrez

– Consumption

• 36 Fashion among Chinese Muslims / Maris Gillette
• 38 Today’s Consumption in Egypt / Mona Abaza

– Islam, Society & the State

• 40 Civil Society and the Islamic Experience / Mohammed A. Bamyeh
• 42 The Reform Nobody Wants Anymore: Iran’s Elections / Morad Saghafi

– Religious Authority

• 44 “Pilgrims of Love”: Sufism in a Global World / Pnina Werbner
• 46 “Official” Islam in Post-9/11 Mauritania / Francisco Freire
• 47 In Search of a Global Islamic Authority / Bettina Gräf
• 48 An Imam in France: Tareq Oubrou / Alexandre Caeiro
• 50 Internet in a Sectarian Islamic Context / Thomas Pierret

– Institutions

• 51 Timbuktu’s First Private Manuscript Library / Aslam Farouk-Alli
• 52 Public Opinion on Iraq: The Use of Historical Documents / Penelope Tuson

– ISIM Info Pages

• 53 Religion and Modernity / Linda Herrera
• 54 Challenges Facing Activists / Abdulkader Tayob
• 55 Islam and Public Life in Africa / José van Santen
• 56 Reading Religion and the Religious in Modern Islam / Abdulkader Tayob
• 58 Editors’ Picks

– Arts

• 59 Rachid Ben Ali

ISIM Review 16, Autumn 2005
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Table of Contents

– ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Linda Herrera
• 5 What is Post-Islamism? / Asef Bayat

– Youth Cultures

• 6 Maroc-Hop: Music and Youth Identities / Miriam Gazzah
• 8 Heavy Metal in a Muslim Context / Pierre Hecker
• 10 Black Crow to Barbie: Changing Student Norms in Iran / Saeid Golkar
• 12 Cool and Competitive: Muslim Culture in the West / Amel Boubekeur

– Sexual Ethics

• 14 Queer Jihad: A View from South Africa / Scott Kugle
• 16 Rape and the Loss of Agency / Sanaa Makhlouf
• 18 Sexual Torture: Rendering, Practices, Manuals / Garay Menicucci

– Minorities & Migration

• 20 Ethnicity and Succes in Higher Education / Tariq Modood
• 22 Buried Alive: Multiculturalism in Germany / Schirin Amir-Moazami
• 24 “Domestication” of Space: Arab Migrants in Milan / Barbara Caputo

– At the Grassroots

• 26 The Baraza: A Grassroots Institution / Roman Loimeier
• 28 Culture of Hope in West Africa / Knut Graw
• 30 Islamic NGOs in Chad / Mayke Kaag

– Political Cultures

• 31 Student Politics in Indonesia / Kristian Morville
• 32 Freedom, Justice, and Good Governance in Arab Countries / Nader Fergany
• 34 In Beirut’s Tent City / Moustafa Bayoumi
• 36 Syria: Another Regimefall Looming / Ammar Abdulhamid
• 38 The Sufi and the President in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan / Alexandre Papas
• 40 Salafis, Jihad, and Drama / Noorhaidi Hasan

– Research Approaches

• 42 Islam along the South Asian Littoral / Brian J. Didier and Edward Simpson
• 44 Weber and Islam / Ernest Wolf-Gazo
• 46 Bridging the Academic Mediterranean / Imco Brouwer

– Travel Writing

• 47 Revisiting Pro-Muslim British Orientalists / Geoffrey P. Nash
• 48 Harem Literature and Women’s Travel / Reina Lewis
• 50 Hajj: Only at this Sacred Time and Place / Na’eem Jeenah

– Arts & Architecture

• 52 A Muslim Voice in Bulgarian Poetry / Marta Simidchieva
• 54 Mosques and Muslims in Marseilles / Marcel Maussen
• 56 A Mosque Between Significance and Style / Akel Ismail Kahera
• 58 Museums, Women, and Empowerment / Carol Malt

– ISIM Info Pages

• 59 Muslim Fashions – Fashionable Muslims / Annelies Moors
• 60 The Making of Muslim Youths / Asef Bayat & Martijn de Koning
• 61 Islam in Africa / Marloes Janson
• 62 Iran on the Move / Anna Enayat & Soraya Tremayne
• 64 Rights at Home Website / Mariëtte van Beek
• 65 NWO Funding for Research on Muslims in Europe / Nathal Dessing
• 66 Editors’ Picks

– Arts

• 67 Arab Image Foundation

ISIM Review 17, Spring 2006

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Table of Contents

-ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Asef Bayat
• 5 Caricatures of the Prophet: European Integration / Abdulkader Tayob

-Popular Piety

• 6 Mawlids & Modernists: Dangers of Fun / Samuli Schielke
• 8 An Image Bazaar for the Devotee / Yousuf Saeed
• 10 Pious Entertainment: Al-Saha Traditional Village / Mona Harb
• 12 Creating Islamic Places: Tombs and Sanctity in West Java / Julian Millie
• 14 Embodied Morality and Social Practice in Syria / Paulo G. Pinto
• 16 Bridging Sufism and Islamism / Alix Philippon
• 18 The Story of a Picture: Shiite Depictions of Muhammad / Pierre Centlivres & Micheline Centlivres-Demont

-Muslim Intellectuals

• 20 Approaching Modern Muslim Thought / Michiel Leezenberg
• 22 Nurcholish Madjid: Indonesian Muslim Intellectual / Martin van Bruinessen
• 24 Contemporary Islam & Intellectual History / R. Michael Feener

-Law & Ethics

• 26 Shiite Perspectives on Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies / Morgan Clarke
• 28 Islamic House Purchase Loans in Britain / Elaine Housby

-Islam, Society & the State

• 30 Islamization of the French Riots / Martijn de Koning
• 32 An Anti-Riot Fatwa / Alexandre Caeiro
• 33 Famine and Democracy in Mauritania / Stacy E. Holden
• 34 The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq / Juan R.I. Cole
• 36 OIC: A Voice for the Muslim World? / Ibrahim Kalin
• 38 War on Terror and Social Networks in Mali / David Gutelius

-Reformist Movements

• 40 Defying Sufism? Senegalese Converts to Shiite Islam / Mara Leichtman
• 42 Travelling with the Tablighi Jamaat in South Thailand / Ernesto Braam
• 44 The Prophet’s Path: Tablighi Jamaat in The Gambia / Marloes Janson
• 46 Informal Links: A Girls’ Madrasa and Tablighi Jamaat / Mareike Jule Winkelmann
• 48 Deoband’s War on Television: Fury over a Fatwa / Yoginder Sikand

-Media & Representation

• 50 If only there was khul’… / Nadia Sonneveld
• 52 Interview Dick Douwes: Resisting Uniformity / Martijn de Koning
• 54 Interview Akiedah Mohamed: Humanizing Muslims through Visual Media / Sindre Bangstad

-ISIM Info Pages

• 57 ISIM News
• 58 Invisible Histories: The Politics of Placing the Past / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
• 59 Contemporary Islamic Movements: Ideology, Aesthetics, Politics / Hillary Hutchinson
• 60 Religious Authority in Western Europe / Frank Peter & Elena Arigita
• 61 Social Change and Identityin Muslim Societies / Kingshuk Chatterjee
• 62 Islam and the “Carriers” of European National Identities / Barbara Thériault & Frank Peter
• 63 Modern Islamic Intellectual History in Comparative Perspective / Abdulkader Tayob
• 64 Rights at Home: Advanced Training Manual / Mariëtte van Beek
• 65 New ISIM Book Series
• 66 Editors’ Picks

-Arts

• 67 Without Boundary

ISIM Review 18, Autumn 2006

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Table of Contents

-ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Mathijs Pelkmans
• 5 Conspiracies and Theories / Asef Bayat

-Shades of Islamism

• 6 Islamists and US Foreign Policy / John L. Esposito
• 8 Islamic Activism and Democratization / Wendy Asbeek Brusse & Jan Schoonenboom
• 10 Islamist-Leftist Cooperation in the Arab World / Jillian Schwedler & Janine A. Clark
• 12 The State in Islamist Thought / Irfan Ahmad
• 14 The “Humanity” of Radical Jihad / Jenna Reinbold
• 16 Re-reading al-Qaeda: Writings of Yusuf al-Ayiri / Roel Meijer
• 18 Liberal Islam: Between Texts and its Modern Condition / Abdulkader Tayob
• 21 Mohammad Khatami: The Philosopher President / Farzin Vahdat

-Society & the State

• 22 The Western Mosque: Space in Physical Place / Thijl Sunier
• 24 New Muslim Elites in The City / Konrad P?dziwiatr
• 26 Ramatoulaye: Brotherhood in Transition / Felice Dassetto & Pierre Joseph Laurent
• 28 State Violence and Popular Resistance in Uzbekistan / Matteo Fumagalli
• 30 Global War on Terror as De-Militarization / Faisal Devji
• 32 Lebanese Shia Women: Temporality and Piety / Lara Deeb
• 34 Religious Mediators in Palestine / Nahda Shehada
• 36 Hizbullah’s Promise / Joseph Alagha

-Religious Labelling

• 37 How and Why “Immigrants” became “Muslims” / Stefano Allievi
• 38 “Muslims” in Swedish Media and Academia / Göran Larsson
• 40 (Muslim) Boyz-N-The-Hood / Chris Allen
• 42 From “Patani Melayu” to “Thai Muslim” / Patrick Jory

-Media & Representation

• 44 Vanishing Orientalism in Leiden / Léon Buskens
• 46 Pixel Pashas, Digital Djinns / Philip Reichmuth & Stefan Werning
• 48 Anti-Evolutionism Among Muslim Students / Danielle Koning
• 50 The Sharia Debate in Ontario / Anna C. Korteweg

-Arts

• 52 Miniature Painting as Muslim Cosmopolitanism / Iftikhar Dadi
• 54 The Disquieting Art of Khosrow Hassanzadeh / Mirjam Shatanawi

-ISIM Info Pages

• 56 Public Debates about Islam in Europe / Martin van Bruinessen
• 57 ISIMNews
• 58 Editors’ Picks
• 59 Arts: Reza Abedini

ISIM Review 19, Spring 2007

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Table of Contents

-ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Mathijs Pelkmans
• 5 “Burka” in Parliament and on the Catwalk / Annelies Moors

-Transnational Ties

• 6 Cosmopolitanism on Pakistan’s Frontier / Magnus Marsden
• 8 Muslim Entrepreneurs between India and the Gulf / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella
• 10 Shiite Aid Organizations in Tajikistan / Bruno de Cordier
• 12 Global Players and Local Agency in Rural Morocco / Bertram Turner
• 15 The Islamists are Coming! / Farish A. Noor and Katharina Zöller

-Connecting to the Modern

• 16 Brazilian TV and Muslimness in Kyrgystan / Julie McBrien
• 18 Meeting, Mating, and Cheating Online in Iran / Pardis Mahdavi
• 20 Hymen Repair on the Arabic Internet / Björn Bentlage & Thomas Eich
• 22 Repackaging Sufism in Urban Indonesia / Julia Day Howell

-Frictions in Europe

• 24 Hidden Features of the Face Veil Controversy / Emma Tarlo
• 26 Ham, Mozart, and Limits to Freedom of Expression / Alexandre Caeiro & Frank Peter
• 28 Danish Muslims: Catalysts of National Identity? / Tina Gudrun Jensen
• 30 Religious Symbols Made in Italy / Maurizio Albahari
• 32 Being a Pious French Muslim Woman / Jeanette S. Jouili

-Rituals in Motion

• 34 Loving God in Macedonia / Niek Biegman
• 36 Women Reconfiguring Esoteric Economies / Amber Gemmeke
• 38 Post-Apartheid Sufi Resurgence / Armien Cassiem
• 40 Ritual Weapons: Islamist Purity Practices in Cairo / Richard Gauvain

-Thoughts & Perceptions

• 42 Egyptian Public Intellectuals and their “Wests” / Robbert Woltering
• 44 A Question of Concern? A Rhetoric of Crisis / Sanaa Makhlouf
• 46 Before and Beyond the Clash of Civilizations / Mohammad Nafissi
• 48 Clifford Geertz: A Memory / Peter van der Veer
• 49 Reflections on Muslim Intellectual History / Loubna el-Morabet

-Society & the State

• 50 The India That Does Not Shine / Thomas Blom Hansen
• 52 Muslims in Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict / Farzana Haniffa
• 54 Violence and Political Change in Saudi Arabia / Joe Stork
• 56 Islam and Chiefship in Northern Mozambique / Liazzat J.K. Bonate
• 58 Interview Jan Pronk: Structures of Violence in Darfur / Karin Willemse

-ISIM Info Pages

• 61 ISIM/News
• 62 Piety, Responsability and Subjectivity in Africa / Marloes Janson & Dorothea Schulz
• 63 The Making of Muslim Youths II / Linda Herrera
• 64 ISIM/Projects
• 65 ISIM/Publications
• 66 Editors’ Picks
• 67 Arts: Erol Albayrak

ISIM Review 20, Autumn 2007

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Table of Contents

– ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Mathijs Pelkmans
• 5 Development and Islamic Charities / Martin van Bruinessen

– Muslim NGOs

• 6 The Overreaction against Islamic Charities / Jonathan Benthall
• 8 Sleeping with the Devil? / Sheila Carapico
• 10 Between Empowerment and Paternalism / Egbert Harmsen
• 12 The Expansion of Muslim NGOs in Ghana / Holger Weiss
• 14 Youth and Social Change in Jordan and Egypt / Sara Lei Sparre & Marie Juul Petersen
• 16 Development as Divinely Imposed Duty / Bjørn Olav Utvik
• 18 Religion, Ethics, and Development: Some Comments / Nigel Dower

– (Post-) Conflict

• 20 Reconstruction and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan / Deniz Kandiyoti
• 22 Beirut: The City as a Body Politic / Mona Fawaz
• 24 New “Religious Men” in Somaliland / Marleen Renders
• 26 Whither the Surge in Iraq? / Joost R. Hiltermann
• 28 Contextualizing the Plight of Iraqi Women / Nadje Al-Ali
• 30 A Dream of Return / Sharika Thiranagama

– Thoughts & Perceptions

• 32 Still Quarrelling over the Quran: Five Interventions / Asma Barlas
• 34 Notes on the Repression of Women in Iran / Akbar Ganji
• 36 Interview Soroush: Enlightenment and Philosophy in Islam / Michiel Leezenberg

– Society & the State

• 38 Coup.com: Turkey Conquers the Politics of Fear / Jenny White
• 40 The Hand of the Market and the Boot of the Army / Cihan Tugal
• 43 A Tale of Two Trajectories / Asef Bayat
• 44 Sharia in Norwegian Courtrooms? / Katja Jansen Fredriksen
• 46 Apostasy and Islamic Civil Society in Malaysia / Sophie Lemière
• 48 Cambodia’s Phum Trea as Mirror Image of Religious Change / Philipp Bruckmayr
• 50 Migrant Domestics and Religious Closeness in Yemen / Marina de Regt
• 52 How “Islamic” is Secularism? Lessons from Cape Town / Sindre Bangstad

– Uncommon Media

• 54 From Repentance to Pious Performance / Karin van Nieuwkerk
• 56 Re-enchanting Turkey: Religious Stories on TV / Ahu Yigit
• 58 Islamophonic: New Styles in Reporting / Nandagopal R. Menon
• 60 Satellite TV and Islamic Pop Culture in Egypt / Patricia Kubala

– ISIM Pages

• 62 ISIM/Conference
• 63 ISIM/News
• 64 ISIM/Conference
• 65 ISIM/Publications
• 66 Editors’ Picks

ISIM Review 21, Spring 2008

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Table of Contents

– ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Annemarike Stremmelaar
• 5 Feeling at Home on the Margin / Asef Bayat

– SALAFISM

• 6 Al-Albani’s Revolutionary Approach to Hadith / Stéphane Lacroix
• 8 The Local and the Global in Saudi Salafism / Madawi Al-Rasheed
• 10 The Development of British Salafism / Sadek Hamid
• 12 Purist Salafism in France / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
• 14 Mujahidin in Bosnia: From Ally to Challenger / Onder Cetin
• 16 From Local Insurgency to Al-Qaida Franchise / Sami Zemni

– MIGRANTS & MINORITIES

• 18 The Religious Trajectories of the Moussaoui Family / Katherine Donahue
• 20 Islamic Schools in South Africa / Inga Niehaus
• 22 Imams in the Netherlands: Expectations and Realities / Welmoet Boender
• 24 Resisting “Blackness”: Muslim Arab Sudanese in the Diaspora / Anita Fabos
• 26 Arab-German Remigration / Ala Al-Hamarneh

– THOUGHTS & PERCEPTIONS

• 28 Muslim Modernities and Civic Pluralism / Amyn B. Sajoo
• 30 Islamic Feminism and Gender Equality / Qudsia Mirza
• 32 Queer-Friendly Islamic Hermeneutics / Samar Habib

– SOCIETY & THE STATE

• 34 Religious Reform and Polarization in Java / Merle C. Ricklefs
• 36 Nigerian Echoes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Maren Milligan
• 38 Kubilay: Icon of Secularism / Umut Azak
• 40 Between Islamists and Kemalists / Berna Turam
• 42 The Fracturing of Pakistan / Kamran Asdar Ali & Humeira Iqtidar
• 44 Peasants, Crime, and Tea in Interwar Egypt / Omnia El Shakry
• 46 Ramadan in Djibouti: Daily Life and Popular Religion / Lidwien Kapteijns

– SPACE & ARCHITECTURE

• 48 Mosques in Stuttgart: Struggling for Space / Petra Kuppinger
• 50 Mosque Design in the Netherlands / Eric Roose
• 52 Contemporary Mosque Architecture / Hasan-Uddin Khan

– ISIM PAGES

• 54 ISIM / Project
• 55 ISIM / News
• 56 ISIM / Workshop
• 57 ISIM / Workshop
• 58 Editors’ Picks
• 59 Arts: Lida Abdul

ISIM Review 22, Autumn 2008

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Table of Contents

– ISIM

• 4 Editorial / Annemarike Stremmelaar
• 5 Everyday Cosmopolitanism / Asef Bayat

– COSMOPOLITANISM

• 6 Jews and Others in Iraq / Sami Zubaida
• 8 Rediscovering Istanbul’s Cosmopolitan Past / Florian Riedler
• 10 Dubai: What Cosmopolitan City / Mohammad Masad
• 12 Staging Cosmopolitanism / Maurizio Albahari

– ARTS & CULTURE

• 14 What We Do Not Know: Questions for a Study of Contemporary Arab Art / Kirsten Scheid
• 16 The Art of Urban Introspection / Kinsey Katchka
• 18 Veiled Visuality: Video Art in Syria / Charlotte Bank
• 20 Cruelty, Ghosts, and Verses of Love / Katinka van Heeren
• 22 Indonesian Muslim Fashions: Styles and Designs / Eva F. Amrullah
• 24 The Sound of Islam: Southeast Asian Boy Bands / Bart Barendregt
• 26 Good Girls and Rebels / Miriam Gazzah
• 28 Purposeful Art between Television Preachers and the State / Jessica Winegar

– ORGANIZATIONS & ACTIVISM

• 30 Al-Huda and its Critics: Religious Education for Pakistani Women / Faiza Mushtaq
• 32 Religious Conviction and Social Activism: Muslim Women in Rotterdam / Hannah Leyerzapf
• 34 Muslim Organizations in Poland / Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach
• 36 Universal Aspirations: The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe / Brigitte Marechal
• 38 New Muslim Youth Associations in Spain / Virtudes Tellez Delgado

– RELIGIOUS PRACTICE & PIETY

• 39 Islamic Religious Practice in Outer Space / Nils Fischer
• 40 Ambivalent Purity / Martijn de Koning
• 42 Muslim Idenitities in the Banlieue / Melanie Adrian
• 44 Imam Hussayn is Love: Individualization of Shia Practices in Britain / Dana Moss

– SOCIETY & THE STATE

• 46 The Politics of Humour in Iran / Ravinder Kaur
• 48 The Ahmadiyya and Freedom of Religion in Indonesia / Leena Avonius
• 50 The Southern Movement in Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren
• 52 Engaging Europe’s Muslims / Maleiha Malik
• 53 Migration Matters: The Longer View / David Waines

– ISIM PAGES

• 54 ISIM / Workshop
• 55 ISIM / News
• 56 ISIM / Conference
• 57 ISIM / News
• 58 Editors’ Picks
• 59 Arts: Hasan and Husain Essop

You can reach the complete repository HERE.