286 Contributors
Armando Salvatore is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and
Communication at the University of Naples – L’Orientale and Senior Research
Fellow (Heisenberg Fellow) at the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt
University, Berlin, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities,
Essen. His present research explores the symbolic, political and practical nexus
between religious traditions and secular formations across Eurasia in the context
of the theoretical approach to ‘multiple modernities’. He also works on commu-
nication, media and the public sphere. Among his most recent books (authored,
edited, and co-edited) are The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam
(2007), Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006), Religion,
Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good
(2004). Dr Salvatore can be reached at [email protected].
Abdulkader Tayob is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Islam,
University of Cape Town, South Africa, and was formerly the ISIM chair at
Radboud University in Nijmegen. Professor Tayob has published extensively
on the history of religious movements and institutions in South Africa. He now
works on Islam and public life in Africa and contemporary intellectual trends in
modern Islam. His publications include the widely used Islam: A Short Introduction
(Oneworld, 1999), Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams and Sermons (Florida
University Press, 1999) and numerous articles and edited books. He is editor of
the Journal for Islamic Studies (UCT). Dr Tayob can be contacted at Abdulkader.
[email protected].
Martin van Bruinessen is Professor of the Comparative Study of
Contemporary Muslim Societies at Utrecht University and at ISIM. He is an
anthropologist with a strong interest in history and politics and with extensive
fi eldwork experience in Kurdistan and Indonesia. His current research is on
varieties of Islamic activism in post-Suharto Indonesia. His books include
Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (1992), Mullas,
Sufi s and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society (2000), and the co-edited
volumes Sufi sm and the ‘Modern’ in Islam (2007) and The Madrasa in Asia: Political
Activism and Transnational Linkages (2008). Dr van Bruinessen can be contacted at
[email protected].
Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near
Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of The
Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), Religion and Politics under
the Early Abbasids (1997) and Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008).
He is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim
Education (2007). Among his current projects is a book titled Internal Criticism