Introduction / Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman
Pt. I. Nineteenth Century
Preface / Charles E. Butterworth. 1. On What Is Between, Even Beyond, the Paradigms of the State and Islam / Charles E. Butterworth. 2. The Impact of Technology Change on the Nineteenth-Century Arab World / Antoine B. Zahlan. 3. An Islamic Political Formula in Transformation: Islam, Identity, and Nationalism in the History of the Volga Tatars / Serif Mardin. 4. Muslim Opposition Thinkers in the Nineteenth Century / Said Bensaid Alaoui
Pt. II. Twentieth Century
Preface / I. William Zartman. 5. Against the Taboos of Islam: Anti-Conformist Tendencies in Contemporary Arab/Islamic Thought / As'ad AbuKhalil. 6. Democratic Thought in the Arab World: An Alternative to the Patron State / Iliya Harik. 7. Political Parties Between State Power and Islamist Opposition / Ibrahim A. Karawan. 8. Liberal Professionals in the Contemporary Arab World / Timothy J. Piro.

9. Daniel Lerner Revisited: The Audio-Visual Media and Its Reception: Two North African Cases / Jean Leca, Meriem Vergès, and Mounia Bennani-Chraibi. 10. Islam, the State, and Democracy: The Contradictions / I. William Zartman.