Revolutionaries and reformers contemporary Islamist movements in the Middle East /

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Islam's perfect stranger the life of Mahmud Muhammad Taha, Muslim reformer of Sudan / by Thomas, Edward

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Islam and democracy in Iran Eshkevari and the quest for reform / by Eshkevari, Hasan Yousefi, 1949-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
Full text available:

The crisis of Islamic civilization by Allawi, Ali A., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Tearing the fabric -- The break with the past -- The counter-revolt of Islam -- Disenchanting the world -- The reformations of Islam -- Territory and power -- Where next for the Islamic state? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Ottoman ulema, Turkish Republic agents of change and guardians of tradition / by Bein, Amit, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The ulema matter -- Branding and rebranding the religious establishment -- Contesting visions of reform -- The remaking and unmaking of religious education -- Political activism and its discontents -- Trials of the early republic -- Ottoman memories, republican realities -- Past legacies, future prospects.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Islam and secularism in Turkey Kemalism, religion and the nation state / by Azak, Umut

Table of Contents: “…Reactionary Islam: the Menemen Incident (1930) -- Turkish Islam: the reform of Turkish Ezan (1932-33) -- Turkish Islam contested: the Ezan debate and secularism (1950) -- Reactionary Islam as violent threat: the Malatya Incident (1952) -- Reactionary Islam as creeping threat: Said Nursi and his disciples (1959-60) -- Turkish Islam reappropriated: Alevism in alliance with Kemalism (1966) -- Conclusion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view