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Frontmatter -- Preface / Verrips, Jojada / Meijers, Daniel -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Gellner, Ernest -- Law and Reality in Modern Islam / Kielstra, Niko -- Islam as a Vehicle of Protest / Waardenburg, Jacques -- Towards an Economic Model of Virtuoso Religion / Turner, Bryan S. -- Militant Islam: a Historical Perspective / Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. -- The Origin of Modern Conservatism and Islamic Fundamentalism / Hanafi, Hassan -- Tribal Pilgramages to Saints' Tombs in South Sinai / Marx, Emanuel -- The Mecruf of Tamjlocht or the Rite of the Bound Victim / Pascan, Paul -- The Discrediting of a Sufi Movement in Tunisia / Brown, Kenneth L. -- Island Puritanism / Platt, Katie -- Trajectories of Contemporary Sufism / Gilsenan, Michael -- The Cult of Saints in North-Western Tunisia1; An Analysis of Contemporary Pilgramage Structures / van Binsbergen, Wim M. J. -- The Contemporary Situation of the Muslim Mystic Orders in Yugoslavia / Popovic, Alexandre -- The History of Religious Politics in the Lebanon / Wessels, Anton -- Aspects of the Changing Nature of Lebanese Confessional Politics: Al-Murabitun, 1958-19791 / Farouk-Sluglett, Marion / Sluglett, Peter -- Index 1: Proper Names -- Index 2: Subject Matter -- Index 3: Foreign Words

The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America