Miriam Hoexter is Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shmuel N. Eisenstadt is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Nehemia Levtzion is Fuld and Bamberger Professor of History of the Muslim Peoples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Acknowledgments
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Note on Transliteration
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Foreword: the Religious Public Sphere in Early Muslim Societies
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Dale F. Eickelman
Introduction
9
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Miriam Hoexter
Nehemia Levtzion
The Mihna (Inquisition) and the Public Sphere
17
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Nimrod Hurvitz
Religious Leadership and Associations in the Public Sphere of Seljuk Baghdad
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Daphna Ephrat
Religion in the Public Sphere: Rulers, Scholars, and Commoners in Syria Under Zangid and Ayyubid Rule (1150-1260)
49
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Daniella Talmon-Heller
The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire
65
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Haim Gerber
The Qadi's Role in the Islamization of Sedentary Tribal Society
83
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Aharon Layish
The Dynamics of Sufi Brotherhoods
109
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Nehemia Levtzion
The Waqf and the Public Sphere
119
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Miriam Hoexter
Concluding Remarks: Public Sphere, Civil Society, and Political Dynamics in Islamic Societies
139
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Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Works Cited
163
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List of Contributors
185
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Index
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