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Constantine reviews 'Islam and Politics in Central Asia' by Mehrdad Haghayeghi.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Gender and the Divine Pleasures of the Cinema -- Why Representations of Gender in Film? -- Commodification of Islam and Gender in Islamic Modernity -- Ways of Making Meaning -- Notes on the Field Site -- Interviewing Indonesia´s Cultural Elite -- Positionality -- Outline of Chapters -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 2: Dakwah at the Cinema: Identifying the Generic Parameters of Islamic Films -- Between the Purity of Dakwah and Market Forces -- Film Islami as a Genre -- Making Films the `Islamic´ Way -- Obstacles and Censorship -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 3: Visualising Muslim Women and Men: A Longue Durée -- Gender as a Product of State Ideology and Censorship -- Stirring Slowly from Passivity: Femininity in Indonesian Cinema -- `The Film Industry Is Masculine´: Masculinities in Indonesian Cinema -- Gender Through an Islamic Cinematic Lens -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 4: Gender, Islam, and the Nation in New Order Islamic Films -- The Men in White: Mystics and a Revolutionary Prince -- Islamic Masculinity and the Modern Indonesian Nation -- Woman as Mother of an Islamic Nation -- A Woman Driven to Apostasy: Female Emancipation as Political Emancipation -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 5: Empowered Muslim Femininities? Representations of Women in Post-New Order Film Islami -- Domestic Struggle as Spiritual Struggle -- Subverting Agency in Mata Tertutup -- Women Who Need Salvation: The Gender Politics of Interfaith Romance and Religious Conversion in Film Islami -- The Rise of the Islamic Film Star -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only)

This article examines the ways in which Islamic civilization has faced the challenges of the modern age and of globalization. The expansion of Islam in world history is itself a global or proto-global process with its own distinctive internal dynamics. The main challenge to modern Islam, coming from the global political culture in the form of constitutionalism and democratization and human rights, has set in motion a civilizational encounter that has significantly altered the politico-religious dynamics of the proto-global, pre-modern Islamic pattern. The intermingling of these inter- and intra-civilizational processes is traced with respect to the subversion of constitutionalism by ideology during the 1945–1989 period, and the slow recovery of the rule of law since 1989. The same framework of civilizational analysis is used for understanding Islamic fundamentalism, and counter-global defensive developments in contemporary Islam.

Martyrs in religions -- Martyrdom in the genesis of Islam -- Legal definitions, boundaries and rewards of the martyr -- Sectarian Islam: Sunni, Shi'ite and Sufi martyrdom -- Martyrs : warriors and missionaries in medieval Islam -- Martyrs of love and epic heroes -- Patterns of prognostication, narrative and expiation -- Martyrdom in contemporary radical Islam -- Martyrdom in Islam : past and present

How can Islam be reconciled with the modernization process in Malaysia, and how can its values be promoted without alienating the non-Muslims? What are the significances of race, religion, and language for Malaysian dealings with China and Indonesia? These are some of the questions of the complex interactions of tradition, modernization, and ethnicity in Malaysia illuminated in this book. (DÜI-Sbt)