New Media in the Muslim World : The Emerging Public Sphere

by Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W.

• ISBN13: 9780253213297
• ISBN10: 0253213290
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media--fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet--and the new uses of older media--cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press--shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Muslim communities in the United States and elsewhere. The extent to which today's new media have transcended local and state frontiers and have reshaped understandings of gender, authority, social justice, identities, and politics in Muslim societies emerges from this timely and provocative book.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Note on Transliteration	xi
Redefining Mulim Publics	1	(18)
Dale F. Eickelman
Jon W. Anderson
The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Slowly Retreating State	19	(10)
Augustus Richard Norton
Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and Its Discontents	29	(12)
Dale F. Eickelman
The Internet and Islam's New Interpreters	41	(16)
Jon W. Anderson
Muslim Identities and the Great Chain of Buying	57	(23)
Gregory Starrett
Legal Reasoning and Public Discourse in Indonesian Islam	80	(26)
John R. Bowen
Bourgeois Leisure and Egyptian Media Fantasies	106	(27)
Walter Armbrust
From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh	133	(29)
Maimuna Huq
Amplifying Trust: Community and Communication in Turkey	162	(18)
Jenny B. White
Media Identities for Alevis and Kurds in turkey	180	(21)
M. Hakan Yavuz
Glossary	201	(4)
Contributors	205	(2)
Index	207