The golden age : the political concepts of Islam / Ira M. Lapidus -- Popular Islam : the origins / Charles E. Butterworth -- Popular Islam / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Militant Islam and the politics of redemption / Mary-Jane Deeb -- Conservative and traditional brotherhoods / John Obert Voll -- State Islam and communal plurality / Nazih N. Ayubi -- The clergy's concepts on rule in Egypt and Iran / Shahrough Akhavi -- Monarchs, mullas, and marshals : Islamic regimes? / Ibrahim A. Karawan -- Islamicist utopia and democracy / Lahouari Addi -- Islam in the states opf the former USSR / Vitaly Naumkin -- An African case study of political Islam : Nigeria / John Hunwick -- Political Islam in Asia : a case study / Alain-Gérard Marsot -- Maghrebi immigration to Europe : double insertion or double exclusion? / Rémy Leveau -- Democracy and Islam : the cultural dialectic / I. William Zartman.