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1.sef Bayat, “The ‘Street’ and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World,” A
Middle East Report 226 (Spring 2003): 10–17.
2.or critiques see the classic article by Janet Abu-Lughod, “The Islamic F
City—Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance,”
International Journal of Middle East Studies 19, no. 2 (May 1987): 155–176;
and Miriam Hoexter et al., eds., The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), especially the essay
by Haim Gerber, “The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Ottoman
Empire,” 65–82.
3.ndreas Koller, “Public Sphere,” in A International Encyclopedia of Civil
Society, edited by Helmut Anheier, Regina List and Stefan Toepler (New
York: Springer, 2009).
- Miriam Hoexter, “The Waqf and the Public Sphere,” in The Public Sphere in
Muslim Societies, 119.
5.ee, for example, Dale Eickelman and Jon Anderson, eds., S New Media
in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999); John L. Esposito and Francois Burgat,
Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and
Europe (Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003); Armando
Salvatore, ed., Muslim Traditions and Modern Techniques of Power,
Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, Vol. 3 (Műnster: LIT, 2001); Armando
Salvatore and Dale Eickelman, eds., Public Islam and the Common Good,
Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia Series
(Leiden: Brill, 2004); Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds., Religion,
Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public
Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies, Culture and Religion in International
Relations Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); Social Research 70,
no. 3, Special Issue on Islam: The Public and Private Spheres (Fall 2003).
The volume by Hoexter et al. deserves special mention for its broad histori-
cal view of Islamic empires from the ninth to the twentieth century and for
its institutional focus in understanding “Islam as a regulator of the social
order,” The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, 10.
6.us, the SSRC Beirut Conference included four roundtables, in addi- Th
tion to the panel presentations. These focused on “Gendering the Public