The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The present volume is the outcome of a two-year workshop held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, as part of a program on “Collective Identity, Public Sphere, and Political Order,” under the auspices of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala, and the Max Weber Kolleg at Erfurt University. The papers elaborated at the workshop were presented in their final form at an international conference held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in October 1997. The participants of the workshop were joined at this conference by Professor Ellis Goldberg of the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Professor Dale F. Eickelman of Dartmouth College, Professor Wolfgang Schluchter of the Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Study, Erfurt University and Heidelberg University, and Professor Bjorn Wittrock of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala. The editors are grateful to the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and to its director , Dr. Shimshon Zelniker, for hosting the workshop. The Institute also covered the language editing and secretarial expenses connected with the production of the manuscript. A special note of appreciation goes to Evelyn Katrak, the language editor, to Sara Soreni, director of publications, and to Esther Rosenfeld for overseeing the preparation of the diskettes. vii ...