A note on style and transliteration	10
	Preface	12
	Introduction	16
	1 Beyond disciplinary boundaries	20
	International relations: a limited political imagination?	21
	Global sociocultural change and the political	29
	Problematising the political in international relations	34
	The anthropology of ‘relating internationally’	41
	The sociology of globalisation: distanciation, globality and glocalisation	45
	Transnational anthropology and political ‘forms of life’	53
	Conclusion: IR as translocal politics	64
	2 Before, during and after the West	68
	The metatheoretical parameters of Islam	69
	‘Islam’, modernity and the West	75
	Islam beyond Eurocentrism	79
	Migration into community: the umma of Medina	84
	Pan-Islam and the colonial umma	89
	Conclusion: reading the Muslim translocale	96
	3 Modes of translocality	98
	Dialogic politics: hybridity and internal difference	105
	Diasporic conversations	116
	Conclusion: the cultural politics of translocal identity	121
	4 Living Islam: politics and community in the Muslim diaspora	123
	Islam, religion and travel	126
	Living (and revising) Islam in diaspora	129
	Encounters and debates with the Muslim other	136
	Rethinking Islam: politics, community, gender	147
	‘Long distance’ Islam	160
	Conclusion: fission and fusion in Muslim translocality	165
	5 Transnational Public Spheres	167
	Communications, the media and Islam	168
	‘Print Islam’: subverting genealogies of religious knowledge	170
	Digitising Islam	173
	Communicating Islam	177
	Diasporic Muslims and IT: new translocal communities?	179
	The Internet in the Gulf: re-localising the translocal?	185
	Conclusions: new Islamist intellectuals and ‘globalisation from below’	191
	6 Reimagining the umma?	193
	Critical Islam and changing boundaries	194
	A new politics of translocal space?	202
	Notes	207
	Bibliography	230
	Glossary of Arabic/Islamic terms	242
	Index	244