Preliminary Table of Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. Redefining Muslim Publics Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W.
Anderson
2. The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Struggle for Political
Reform Augustus Richard Norton
3. Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and
Its Discontents Dale F. Eickelman
4. The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters Jon W. Anderson
5. The Birth of a Media Ecosystem: Lebanon in the Internet Age Yves
Gonzalez-Quijano
6. Muslim Identities and the Great Chain of Buying Gregory
Starrett
7. Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies Walter
Arbrust
8. From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh
Maimuna Huq
9. Civic Pluralism Denied? Jihadi Radicals the New Media in
Post-Suharto Indonesia Robert W. Hefner
10. Media Identities for Alevis and Kurds in Turkey M. Hakan
Yavuz
Glossary
Contributors
Index
How today's newest media are reshaping Muslim societies.
Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. His recent publications include The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th Edition, and Muslim Politics (co-authored with James Piscatori).
Jon W. Anderson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at The Catholic University of America and co-director of the Arab Information Project at Georgetown University. He is author of Arabizing the Internet.
Praise for the first edition: "It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." Digest of Middle East Studies
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