Contested Polities  Religious Disciplines & Structures of Modernity
	A special issue edited by Nancy Reynolds and Saba Mahmood

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Table of Contents

Saba Mahmood and Nancy Reynolds, Anthropology and History, Stanford University,

Introduction

Talal Asad, Anthropology, New School for Social Research,

Modern Power and the Reconfiguration of Religious Traditions

Gauri Viswanathan, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University,

Beyond Orientalism: Syncretism and the Politics of Knowledge

Charles Hirschkind, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University,

Heresy or Hermeneutics:the Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

Barbara D. Metcalf,History, University of California at Davis,

Islam and women: the case of the tablighi jama`at

Hilton Obenzinger,Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University,

In the Shadow of the "god's sun-dial" the construction of american christian zionism and the blackstone memorial

Aron Rodrigue,History, Stanford University,

Difference and tolerance in the ottoman empire: interview by Nancy Reynolds

Joel Beinin,History, Stanford University,

Egyptian jewish identities: communitarianism, nationalisms, nostalgias

Gauri Viswanathan,English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University,

Ethnographic politics and the discourse of origins

Suad Joseph,Anthropology, University of California at Davis,

Searching for baba: personal notes on rights and post-colonialities

Book Reviews

• Jane F. Collier on Islamic Law and Western Imperialism
• Robert Blecher on Ervand Abrahamian's Khomeini
• Christina Civantos on Joanna Kadi's Food for Our Grandmothers
• William Glover on Susan Ossman'a Casablanca
• Rebecca Luna Stein on Sherna Berger Gluck's Palestine
• lliott Colla on Rasheed El-Enany's assessment of Naguib Mahfouz

 

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