Investigating the south-south dimension of modernity and Islam / edited by Helmut Buchholt, Georg Stauth.

Includes bibliographical references.

Speculation on South-South connections, modernity and Islam / by Mona Abaza -- Behind the veil : Islam in Malaysia and Tunisia / by Asma Latif-Beatrix -- Histories of Islamisation and local Islams betweeen the Middle East and Southeast Asia : theories and personalities / by Georg Stauth -- From the cape to Istanbul : transnational networks and communal conflicts / by Roman Loimeier -- Satyagraha : Ghandi's influence on an Egyptian feminist / by Cynthia Nelson -- Alatas and Shari'ati on socialism : autonomous social science and occidentalism / by Syed Farid Alatas -- Sketches of three portraits of Hadhrami origin Southeast Asians / by Mona Abaza -- The secular author and the religious readers : Rushdie, Nasrin and the Muslims in Bangladesh / by Habib Khondker -- Female agency in local arena : a case study from Northern Sudan / by Ruth Klein-Hessling -- Publicising relegion, differentiation and de-diferentiation : Alevits between Berlin and Anatolia / by Refika Sarionder -- Visions, claims, and utopia : Re-negotiating social space for Muslims in Patani/Southern Thailand / by Alexander Horstmann -- Sowohi and Joguru : the guardians of Islam. The understanding of local Islam on Tidore, North Maluku/Indonesia / by Lany Probojo