Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mihna (inquisition) and the public sphere / Nimrod Hurvitz
  • Religious leadership and associations in the public sphere of Seljuk Baghdad / Daphna Ephrat
  • Religion in the public sphere: rulers, scholars, and commoners in Syria under Zangid and Ayyubid rule (1150-1260) / Daniella Talmon-Heller
  • The public sphere and civil society in the Ottoman Empire / Haim Gerber
  • The Qāḍī's Role in the Islamization of sedentary trial society / Aharon Layish
  • The dynamics of Sufi brotherhoods / Mehemia Levtzion
  • The WAQF and the public sphere / Miriam Hoexter
  • Concluding remarks: public sphere, civil society, and political dynamics in Islamic societies / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt.