Preface (vii)
Thematic: Middle Eastern unity and diversity
- John Obert Voll : Diversity and unity in Middle Eastern societies: The
dangers of static images and changing realities (1)
- Tryggve Kronholm : Arab culture: reality or fiction? (12)
- Mehdi Mozaffari : The political situation of the Middle East since 1989
(26)
The political faces of Islam
- Bjørn Olav Utvik : The Egyptian Labour Partya new brand of
Islamism (32)
- Lene KofoedRasmussen and Connie Carøe Christiansen : Gender and
culture in the Islamic trend (42)
- Tuomo Melasuo : How to understand Islamism in Algeria (56)
Christians in the Middle East
- Haseeb Shehadeh : Christian Arabs in the Middle East (71)
- Samuel Rubenson : Church and state, communion and community: Some issues in
the recent ecclesiastical history of Jerusalem (84)
- Bo Holmberg : Christian scribes in the Arabic Empire (103)
Sufism and society
- Helena Hallenberg : The theme of light and illumination in stories
concerning Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (115)
- Rex Seán O'Fahey : "Games, dancing and handclapping". A Sufi
controversy in South Arabia (123)
- Knut S. Vikør : Mystics in the desert: The Sanusiya and the Sahara
(133)
- Risto Pekka Pennanen : Sufism and music in Sarajevo (146)
Studies in Arabic literature
- Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila : Unity and variation in a medieval anecdote
(153)
- Kerstin Eksell : On the length of life (165)
- Heikki Palva : Hikaya fi damm in-nisa, A story
in dispraise of women. A 14th-century (?) Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic manuscript
(176)
Nomadic, tribal and urban groups and identites
- Bodil Hjerrild : The Parsees in Bombay and their present problems (189)
- Lars Wåhlin : How can one compare the 'Allan-area of Jordan with
geographical Syria? An essay on generalization (196)
- Øystein LaBianca : The fluidity of social groups in central
Transjordan (206)
- Harald Skogseid : Nomadic pastoralism and land use patterns in eastern
Turkey. The case of the Kurdish Beritan tribe (216)
Summaries of research
Studies in the Social sciences (233)
- Elisabeth Özdalga : Tesettur at Turkish universities during the
1980s)
- Muhammad Bandar : Al-wahdah - reality or political slogan)
- Lone Sandholdt Jacobsen : An analysis of the development of the nationalist
movements in the Middle East)
- Christel Braae : Cultural heritage and national identity)
Studies in the Humanities (239)
- Camilla Nereid : Sheikh Said Nursi and the Nur movement)
- Gail Ramsay : A presentation of Yusuf al-Siba'i)
- Philippe Provençal : The biological sciences in Classical Arabic
culture)
- Irmeli Perho : The Prophet's medicine - Islamization of a scientific
tradition)
- Helle Lykke Nielsen : How to teach remote foreign languages for
communication)
- Anna-Karin Guindy : The world after MBC
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