221 Book Reviews while banditry is construed to be a “pre-political phenomenon” endemic in a rural setting, there is a certain parallelism that defines the relations between bandits on the one hand and the local population ...

The ‘Palestinian cause’ has long established itself as a core issue through which to mobilise popular opinion and the general public in Egypt. Additionally, the degree that an Arab state supports the struggle for Palestinian ...

Book abstract: A contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century. Prevalent norms and acts are subject to competing motivations, trends and forces. The image of a monolithic Islam is thus ...

Since the 1960s, the Syrian scholar Shaykh Jawdat Said, a dissenting figure in the Arab world, has been promoting the value of non-violence. He has consistently argued against linking violence, particularly religious ...

Over the last two centuries the Muslim world has undergone dramatic transformations, impacting the Islamic tradition and throwing into question our understanding of tradition. The notion of tradition as an unmoving edifice ...

No longer can the certitudes of democratization or democracy be taken for granted. Political events around the world belie the preoccupation with a single model that ought to be desirable and adopted by others. The notion ...

I . Introduction II. Outlines of the Inclusion-Moderation Hypothesis III. An Alternative: Decentring the Rational Subject IV. Public Service and Cooperation in Egypt V . Conclusion