Foreword / by Ernest Gellner. -- Islam in the age of postmodernity / Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings Donnan. -- Turkish arabesk and the city: urban popular culture as spatial practice / Martin Stokes. -- Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: the "Hosay" in Trinidad / Gustav Thaiss. -- How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: contested models of development in Malaysia / Judith Nagata. -- The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state / Fred Halliday. -- Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world / Abubaker A. Bagader. -- Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world / Anita M. Weiss. -- Women and the veil: personal responses to global process / Helen Watson. -- Sojourners abroad: migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society / Richard T. Antoun. -- Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziauddin Sardar / Tomas Gerholm. -- Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War / Pnina Werbner