Contributors
- Contributors
Jillali El Adnani is a professor of history at the University of Agadir, research fellow at the IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence (France), and former fellow at the working group Modernity and Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. He is the author of Entre hagiographie et histoire: Les origines d'une confrérie maghrébine: La Tijâniyya (1781-1880) (Rabat: Éditions Marsam, 2007) and has published several articles in collective volumes published by Karthala, Paris, and in various international journals, including the Maghreb Review.
Asef Bayat is the academic director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and ISIM professor at Leiden University. His latest books include Street Politics (Columbia University Press, 1997) and Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007).
Bettina Dennerlein is a research fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She is the author of Islamisches Recht und sozialer Wandel in Algerien: Zur Entwicklung des Personalstatuts seit 1962 (Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1998) and has published several articles on religious and political developments in modern North Africa.
Eric Germain is a researcher at the Institut d'Etudes de l'Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman in Paris. He has published L'Afrique du Sud musulmane (Karthala, 2007), has coedited the volume Islam in Europe in the Interwar Period (Hurst, forthcoming), and is the author of several articles.
Elham Gheytanchi teaches sociology at Santa Monica College, California. She earned her BA (1995) and MA (1998) in sociology from the University of California, Los Angles, and completed PhD courses in sociology there in 2001. Her field of research has been women in postrevolutionary Iran. Her publications include "Civil Society in Iran: Politics of Motherhood and Public Sphere," International Sociology Journal, vol. 16, no. 4 (2001); "Frauen in der Islamischen Öffentlichkeit in Iran," in Islam in Sicht: Der Auftritt von Muslimen im öffentlichen Raum, edited by Nilüfer Göle and Ludwig Amman (Bielefeld, 2004); and "Chronology of Events regarding Women in Iran since the Revolution of 1979," an appendix to Nikki Keddie, "Women in Iran since 1979," Social Research Journal, vol. 67, no. 2 (2000).
Dyala Hamzah is a junior research fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She was trained in philosophy (MPhil), a discipline she taught for several years after qualifying as a teacher (Agrégation). She has published an annotated translation of Abu Nasr al-Farabi's Risala fil-aql (Abu Nasr al-Farabi, L'Epître sur l'intellect, L'Harmattan, 2001). In more recent years, her interests and publications have been in the history and sociology of the modern Middle East.
Noorhaidi Hasan is an associate professor of Islam and politics at the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has published Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia (Cornell University Southeast Asian Program Publications, 2006) and is the author of several articles.
Alexander Horstmann, a social anthropologist, is a senior research fellow at the Westphalian Wilhelms–University of Münster. He has published Class, Culture, and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand (Bielefeld, 2002). He is the author of numerous articles on the coexistence and transformation of religion in southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.
Charles B. Jones is an associate professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. A specialist in East Asian religions, he has published Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990 (University of Hawai'i Press, 1999) and The View from Mars Hill: Christianity in the Landscape of World Religions (Cowley, 2005) and coedited Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society (University of Hawai'i Press, 2003). [End Page 222]
David N. Lorenzen has been a professor and researcher in the Centre of Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de Mexico since 1970. His more recent publications include a collection of essays, Who Invented Hinduism? Essays on Religion in History (Yoda, 2006); an edited book, Religious Movements in South Asia, 600-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2004); and an article...
