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