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Bassam Tibi: cultural modernity for religious reform and Euro-Islam -- Tariq Ramadan: from adaptive to transformative reform and European Islam -- Tareq Oubrou: geotheology and the minoriticization of Islam -- Abdennour Bidar: self Islam, islamic existentialism and overcoming religion -- European Islamic thought and the formation of perpetual modernity paradigm -- Ontological revolution and epistemological shift in European Islamic thought -- Conceptualizing the idea of European Tslam: Taha Abderrahmane's trusteeship critique for overcoming classical dichotomous thought -- Consolidating the idea of European Islam through perpetual modernity paradigm -- European islam as a Rawlsian reasonable comprehensive doctrine -- Conclusion: from European Islam to Arab Islam

About 5% of the EU's inhabitants identify themselves as Muslims. Thus, there is an increasing presence of Muslims and Islam in European society, and this has caused an increase in their presence in politics. Muslims living in Europe have entered the political arena in different ways, both with Islamic parties and as candidates for the main parties. An analysis of the evolution of Muslim political participation in Europe shows that Islamic parties have largely failed, while politicians with Muslim backgrounds who join parties with no Islamic identity have obtained good results. This means that Muslims with a strong religious identity are still seen as a world apart in Europe, while Muslims who either have a secular identity or who live their faith as a personal belief are considered to be ordinary citizens who people vote for based on their inner qualities, regardless of their religion.

A review essay on books by (1) M. J. Akbar, The Shade of Swords. Jihad and the Conflict between Islam & Christianity (London: Routledge, 2002); (2) Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, & Daniel Brumberg (Eds), Democracy in the Middle East (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 2003); & (3) Jennifer Noyon, Islam, Politics and Pluralism. Theory and Practice in Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and Algeria (London: Royal Instit International Affairs, 2003).

Defining Concepts, Demolishing Myths -- Islam's Multiple Voices -- Self-Proclaimed Islamic States -- Between Ideology and Pragmatism -- Muslim Democracies -- Islamist National Resistance -- Violent Transnationalism -- The Many Faces of Political Islam,

Examines the origins, tactics, and objectives of resurgent Muslim political movements; 8 articles. Topics include: ideological origins of Islamic revivalism; Islam in Egypt, Sudan, and Iran; US-Muslim relations; and future directions.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. Media reports tend to paint madrasas --religious schools dedicated to Islamic learning -- as medieval institutions opposed to all that is Western and as breeding grounds for terrorists. Others have claimed that without reforms, Islam and the West are doomed to a clash of civilizations. Robert Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman bring together eleven internationally renowned scholars to examine the varieties of modern Muslim education and their implications for national and global politics. The contributors provide new insights into Muslim culture and politics in countries as different as Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. They demonstrate that Islamic education is neither timelessly traditional nor medieval, but rather complex, evolving, and diverse in its institutions and practices. They reveal that a struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim lands started long before the Western media discovered madrasas, and that Islamic schools remain on its front line. Schooling Islam is the most comprehensive work available in any language on madrasas and Islamic education

Islamic revivalism and its diversity of expression in Libya, Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon.

Encountering Islam : the politics of religious identities in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction — Encountering Islam -- Part II: Islam across Borders -- 2. Religious Elites and the State in Indonesia and Elsewhere: Why Take-overs are so Difficult and Usually Don't Work -- 3. "I was the Guest of Allah": Modern Hajj Memoirs from Southeast Asia -- 4. The Aurad Muhammadiah Congregation: Modern Transnational Sufism in Southeast Asia -- Part III: Malaysia -- 5. Legal-Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia: Homogenizing and Ring-fencing the Muslim Subject -- 6. The Letters of the Law and the Reckoning of Justice among Tamils in Malaysia -- 7. Islamization and Ethnicity in Sabah, Malaysia -- Part IV: Indonesia -- 8. Natsir & Sukarno: Their Clash over Nationalism, Religion and Democracy, 1928-1958 -- 9. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah -- 10. Religion and the Politics of Morality: Muslim Women Activists and the Pornography Debate in Indonesia -- Part V: Muslim Minorities -- 11. Malay Muslims and the Thai-Buddhist State: Confrontation, Accommodation and Disengagement -- 12. Identifying with Fiction: The Art and Politics of Short Story Writing by Muslims in the Philippines -- 13. Issues of Islam and the Muslims in Singapore Post-9/11: An Analysis of the Dominant Perspective -- Index.