Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach

Contributors

Janine A. Clark is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is coeditor of Economic Liberalization , Democratization, and Civil Society in the Developing World and author of Islam, Social Welfare, and the Middle Class: Networks, Activism, and Charity in Egypt, Yemen, and Jordan. Mohammed M. Hafez is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is author of Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World. Charles Kurzman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the anthologies Liberal Islam : A Source-Book and Modernist Islam, 1840–1940: A Source-Book and author of The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, 1977–1979. Fred H. Lawson is Professor of Government and Chair of the Department of Government at Mills College. He is author of Why Syria Goes to War and Bahrain: The Modernization of Autocracy. Gwenn Okruhlik is a political scientist and Fulbright scholar to Saudi Arabia (2002–2003), where she is conducting research on meaning and memory. Her publications cover a range of topics, including identity, citizenship, and Islamism in Saudi Arabia; alternative historic narratives; tourism; gender and civic mythology; and migrant labor in the Arabian Peninsula. Glenn E. Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Naval 305 Contributors Postgraduate School. He has written on democratization, the peace process, and state-building in Palestine, Jordan, and Syria, including Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution. Jillian Schwedler is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She has edited several books on civil society and Islamist movements and has written a number of articles on issues related to democratization. She is a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report and a member of the Steering Committee for the PalestinianAmerican Research Center in Ramallah. Diane Singerman is Associate Professor of Government at American University . She is author of Avenues of Participation and coeditor of Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo. Benjamin Smith is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He will be Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at the University of Florida, starting in 2004. His research focuses on state-building and the politics of resource wealth and economic development. He is currently working on a book focused on the politics of state-building and development in oil-rich countries. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University and author of Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt. Quintan Wiktorowicz is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is author of The Management of Islamic Activism and Global Jihad: Understanding September 11. He is currently conducting research on radical Islamic groups in London. M. Hakan Yavuz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah and author of Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. His current projects focus on transnational Islamic networks in Central Asia and Turkey; the role of Islam in state-building and nationalism; and ethno-religious con®ict management . Contributors 306 ...