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In later years an abundance of collected volumes on various aspects of "Islam" have appeared. T his "Islam" has been used as the element in common for a wide range of phenomena in a vast area. In this upsurge of interest it has not always been made sufficiently clear whether "Islam" really supplies the most suitable frame of reference for the phenomena described. Islam is obviously one religion, but could it meaningfully be treated as one culture, one social order, one political philosophy? Is the Islamic community, the umma, a more coherent entity than, say, Christendom? The present work is a case in point. It is based on fourteen papers read at an international symposium held in 1984 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Although the volume allegedly treats "Islam: State and Society," it is in fact divided in three p arts: "On Contemporary Islamic Studies,"" Authority and the State," and "Secularization: Nation-State and Modernization." from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 10, 2012)

1. Transcendence and interpretation : introductory notes on the theology of the rule of law / Lior Barshack -- 2. Shari'a, faith and critical legal theory / Marinos Diamantides -- 3. One law against another? : reading the veil cases : the foundational reference, Shari'a and human rights / Adam Gearey -- 4. The gift of ambiguity : strategising beyond the either/or of secularism and religion in Islamic divorce law / Hassan El Menyawi -- 5. What is Islamic law? : a praxiological answer and an Egyptian case study / Baudouin Dupret -- 6. State of equalities : law, marriage and citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania / Satyel Larson -- 7. Entrepreneurs and morals / Gul Berna Ozcan -- 8. Religion, politics and the dilemma of national identity / Tasneem Kausar -- 9. Theorizing Islam without the state : Islamic discourses on the minority status of Muslims in the West / Alexandre Caeiro -- 10. Terror in the faculty lounge : addressing the politics of fear and the politics of difference in government security politics / Katherine E. Brown.

This book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on Muslim revivalist-fundamentalist movements which were contained by the Ottoman government's Islamist ideology and whose ideas fuelled a new kind of nationalist-religious ideology.