Preface and Acknowledgments ix
 
Introduction 1
 
Knowledge and Power in the Sociology of Islam 1
 
Knowledge/Charisma vs. Power/Wealth: The Challenge of Religious Movements 18
 
Civility as the Engine of the Knowledge-Power Equation: Islam and 'Islamdom' 23
 
PART I Patterns of Civility
 
1 The Limits of Civil Society and the Path to Civility 43
 
The Origins of Modern Civil Society 43
 
Civil Society as a Site of Production of Modern Power 50
 
Folding Civil Society into a Transversal Notion of Civility 57
 
2 Brotherhood as a Matrix of Civility: The Islamic Ecumene and Beyond 73
 
Between Networking, 'Charisma,' and Social Autonomy: The Contours of 'Spiritual' Brotherhoods 73
 
Beyond Sufism: The Unfolding of the Brotherhood 85
 
Rewriting Charisma into Brotherhood 92
 
PART II Islamic Civility in Historical and Comparative Perspective
 
3 Flexible Institutionalization and the Expansive Civility of the Islamic Ecumene 105
 
The Steady Expansion of Islamic Patterns of Translocal Civility 105
 
Authority, Autonomy, and Power Networks: A Grid of Flexible Institutions 114
 
The Permutable Combinations of Normativity and Civility 118
 
4 Social Autonomy and Civic Connectedness: The Islamic Ecumene in Comparative Perspective 131
 
New Patterns of Civic Connectedness Centered on the 'Commoners' 131
 
Liminality, Charisma, and Social Organization 140
 
Municipal Autonomy vs. Translocal Connectedness 147
 
PART III Modern Islamic Articulations of Civility
 
5 Knowledge and Power: The Civilizing Process before Colonialism 165
 
From the Mongol Impact to the Early Modern Knowledge-Power Configurations 165
 
Taming theWarriors into Games of Civility? Violence, Warfare, and Peace 176
 
The LongWave of PowerDecentralization 189
 
6 Colonial Blueprints of Order and Civility 201
 
The Metamorphosis of Civility under Colonialism 201
 
Court Dynamics and Emerging Elites: The Complexification of the Civilizing Process 218
 
Class, Gender, and Generation: The Ultimate Testing Grounds of the Educational-Civilizing Project 226
 
7 Global Civility and Its Islamic Articulations 239
 
The Dystopian Globalization of Civility 239
 
Diversifying Civility as the Outcome of Civilizing Processes 251
 
From Islamic Exceptionalism to a Plural Islamic Perspective 260
 
Conclusion 271
 
Overcoming Eurocentric Views: Religion and Civility within Islam/Islamdom 271
 
The Institutional Mold of Islamic Civility: Contractualism vs. Corporatism? 278
 
From the Postcolonial Condition toward New Fragile Patterns of Translocal Civility 287
 
Index 295