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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Moroccan Islam -- Introduction -- 1. Morocco, Islam, and the Maraboutic Crisis -- 2. Marabouts and Local Histories: The Sherqawa -- 3. Boujad: The Town and Its Region -- 4. Social Structure -- 5. Impermanence and Inequality: The Common-Sense Understanding of the Social Order -- 6. The Ideology of Maraboutism -- 7. Sherqawi Identity -- 8. From Center to Periphery: The Fragmentation of Maraboutism -- Appendix. The Wheel of Fortune: The Last Maraboutic Intrigues -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Rising education, easier travel, new communications media, and liberalizing voices are quickly making the Arab "street" a true "public sphere"—a force with which governments, and the West, will have to reckon. The good news, argues a scholar of the Muslim world, is that channels exist by which the West can address the Arab public. But that public, better informed, will be quick to notice gaps between statement and action.

Bin Laden speaks in the vivid language of popular Islamic preachers, and builds on a deep and widespread resentment against the West and local ruling elites identified with it. The lack of formal outlets to express opinion on public concerns has created [a] democracy deficit in much of the Arab world, and this makes it easier for terrorists such as bin Laden, asserting that they act in the name of religion, to hijack the Arab street.

Der Beitrag untersucht den verändernden Einfluss der modernen Massenkommunikation auf das Selbstverständnis der muslimischen Gemeinschaft. (DÜI-Hns)

Buzzwords such as 'fundamentalism' and catchy phrases such as Samuel Huntington's 'West versus the rest'…obscure or even distort the immense spiritual and intellectual ferment that is taking place today among the world's nearly 1 billion Muslims.