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Frontiers, Frictions, Movements, Media, Politics, Perceptions ISIM Review 19, Spring 2007 ISIM, Citation ISIM,. (2007). ISIM Review 19, Spring 2007. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12440 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12440 from: Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). SPRING 2 0 0 7 6 8 P A G E S [email protected] WWW.ISIM.NL 1 9 PHOTO BY MARTIN ROEMERS / © HOLLANDSE HOOGTE, 2007 Mumbai, India, 2007 Connections Frontiers, Frictions, Movements, Media, Politics, Perceptions 6 24 46 50 Magnus Marsden Emma Tarlo Mohammad Nafissi Thomas Blom Hansen Everyday Cosmopolitanism The Veil Controversy Before and Beyond the Clash The India That Does Not Shine Advertisements New titles from FrontlineFrontline Pakistan TurkishTurkish Democracy TTodayoday The StruggleStruggle with Militant Islam Elections, ProtestProtest and StabilityStability in an Zahid Hussain Islamic Society Based on exclusive interviews with key players, as well Ali Carkoglu & Ersin Kalaycioglu as withwith grassroots radicals, Hussain reveals how The experience of democracy in TurkeyTurkey since its Pakistan’sPakistanís President, Pervez Musharraf, tooktook thethe introduction in 1950 has been bloodybloody,, chequered but decision to support America’sAmericaís drive against jihadism, persistent. But as this important new work argues,argues, and thus took Pakistan to war with itself. TurkishTurkish democracy has for too long been treated as a sui ‘AëA timely warning about the dangers of taking a generis case, and has been cut ofofff from theoretical developments in psephology andand comparativcomparativee wavering approachapproach to terrterrorism.’orism.í Bronwen Maddox, 256 pagespa ges 232 pages sociology.sociology. The authors seek to redress this, combining 234 x 156mm Foreign AffairsAffairs Editor,Editor, The Times.Times. 234 x 156mm156mm 234 x 156mm cutting-edge theory with in-depth empirical research to 978 1 8451184511 266 0 Zahid Hussain is the Pakistan correspondent for The 978 1 84511 185 4 address the key issues in contemporary TurkishTurkish politics. Hardback TimesTimes of London,London, The WallWall StreetStreet JournalJournal andand HardbackHardback £17.99 Newsweek. £45.00 Ersin Kalycioglu is a Professor of Political Science and President of Isik University,University, Istanbul. The Price of Fear Iranian Cinema The TruthTruth Behind the Financial WWarar on TTerrorerror A Political History Ibrahim WWardearde Hamid Reza Sadr In this myth-shattering new book, Irbrahim WWardearde This highly readable history of Iran as revealed through arguesargues that the series of financial ‘crackdowns’ëcrackdownsí initiated the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films by the US government since 9/119/11 have had virtually no themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, impact on terrorism. This is because they are based on economic andand social situations.situations. Sadr arguesargues that a fundamental misconception of how terrrorism works. embedded within even the seemingly least noteworthy He arguesargues that the real purpose of the financial war is to of mainstream Iranian films, we find themes anandd create at least one front on which there can be characterisations which reveal the political contexts of create at least one front on which there can be 320 pages 264 pages their time andand which expressexpress the ideologicalideological unscrutinised ‘victories’.ëvictoriesí. Incisive, andand uutterlytterly 222 x 172mm 234 x 156mm compelling, Wardeís book brings to our attention for underpinnings of a society.society. 978 1 85043 424 5 compelling, Warde’s book brings to our attention for 978 1 8451184511 147 2 978 1 85043 424 5 the first time the absurdities of a phoney war. Hardback the first time the absurdities of a phoney war. Paperback Hamid Reza Sadr is a film critic and writer based £18.99 Ibrahim WardeWarde is Adjunct ProfessorProfessor at TuftsTufts £16.99 in TTehran.ehran. University and a writer for Le Monde Diplomatique. www.ibtauris.com www.ibtauris.com I.B.TAURIS Publishers To order these and other titles from I.B.Tauris, I.B.TAURIS Publishers please contact our distributors: To subscribe to our free New Book Alerts Tel: +44 (0) 1264 342932 Fax: +44 (0) 1264 342761 Service go to www.ibtauris.com Email: [email protected] M A J O R N E W T I T L E S F R O M Oneworld Publications Islam The Five Percenters Past, Present and Future Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York HANS KÜNG MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT HB978-1-85168-377-2£29.99/$39.95900pp HB978-1-85168-513-4£19.99/$27.95352pp In this extraordinary comprehensive book, Hans Küng gives With unrivalled insider access to the movement’s elders, an in-depth account of Islam, explaining why “peace between oral tradition and community literature, Knight reveals religions” is essential. the controversial reality behind the community of the Five Percenters. 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Noor and Katharina Zöller Utrecht University ISIM Review 19 CONNECTING TO THE MODERN Spring 2007 68 Pages 16 Brazilian TV and Muslimness in Kyrgystan / Julie McBrien ISSN 1 871-4374 18 Meeting, Mating, and Cheating Online in Iran / Pardis Mahdavi Editorial Office 20 Hymen Repair on the Arabic Internet / Björn Bentlage & Thomas Eich Postal Address ISIM, P.O. Box 11089 22 Repackaging Sufism in Urban Indonesia / Julia Day Howell 2301 EB Leiden The Netherlands Telephone FRICTIONS IN EUROPE +31 (0)71 527 7905 Email 24 Hidden Features of the Face Veil Controversy / Emma Tarlo [email protected] 26 Ham, Mozart, and Limits to Freedom of Expression / Alexandre Caeiro & Frank Peter Homepage www.isim.nl 28 Danish Muslims: Catalysts of National Identity? / Tina Gudrun Jensen Editor 30 Religious Symbols Made in Italy / Maurizio Albahari Mathijs Pelkmans 32 Being a Pious French Muslim Woman / Jeanette S. Jouili Copy and language editors Sanaa Makhlouf, Richard Gauvain General coordinator Dennis Janssen RITUALS IN MOTION Editorial committee 34 Loving God in Macedonia / Niek Biegman Asef Bayat Martin van Bruinessen 36 Women Reconfiguring Esoteric Economies / Amber Gemmeke Annelies Moors Mathijs Pelkmans 38 Post-Apartheid Sufi Resurgence / Armien Cassiem Design 40 Ritual Weapons: Islamist Purity Practices in Cairo / Richard Gauvain De Kreeft, Amsterdam Printing Dijkman Offset, Diemen THOUGHTS & PERCEPTIONS Coming Issue 42 Egyptian Public Intellectuals and their “Wests” / Robbert Woltering ISIM Review 20 Deadline for Articles 44 A Question of Concern? A Rhetoric of Crisis / Sanaa Makhlouf 15 June 2007 Publication Date 46 Before and Beyond the Clash of Civilizations / Mohammad Nafissi Autumn 2007 48 Clifford Geertz: A Memory / Peter van der Veer Author Guidelines 49 Reflections on Muslim Intellectual History / Loubna el-Morabet Authors are invited to submit original articles to the ISIM Review for publication consideration. Articles should deal with issues relating to contemporary Muslim SOCIETY & THE STATE societies and communities from within a 50 The India That Does Not Shine / Thomas Blom Hansen social science or humanities framework. Of especial interest are research and 52 Muslims in Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict / Farzana Haniffa debates dealing with culture, social movements, development, youth, politics, 54 Violence and Political Change in Saudi Arabia / Joe Stork gender, religion, arts, media, education, Islam and Chiefship in Northern Mozambique / minorities, migration, public intellectuals, 56 Liazzat J.K. 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