Making Uzbekistan nation, empire, and revolution in the early USSR by Khalid, Adeeb 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Intelligentsia and reform in Tsarist Central Asia -- The moment of opportunity -- Nationalizing the revolution -- The Muslim republic of Bukhara -- The long road to Soviet power -- A revolution of the mind -- Islam between reform and revolution -- The making of Uzbekistan -- Tajik as a category of exclusion -- The ideological front -- The assault -- Toward Soviet power…”

Terrorism democracy the west & the Muslim world

The Great War and the remaking of Palestine by Tamārī, Salīm

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles -- Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria -- The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine -- A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided -- Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik -- The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad.…”

Historical imagination and cultural responses to colonialism and nationalism a critical Malay(sian) perspective by Azhar Ibrahim

Table of Contents: “…Critical historical imagination: sense and responsibility -- The indigenous perspective on colonial capitalism: insights from the Malay naratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Orientalism and Malay studies -- Orientalism, ethno-religious exclusivism and academicism in Malay studies: challenges in the emergence of an autonomous sociological discourse -- Psychological feudalism and obstacles to development -- Competing visions of the 'Melayu Baru' in contemporary Malay thought -- Cultural development and the role of the cultural intelligentsia in social transformation -- Autobiographies of dissent: some insights into the experiences of marginalised individuals in Malay society -- On guard agaist the nativism and divisiveness of nationalism (and all other debilitating 'isms')…”

Emancipated education essays on the nurturing of critical discourse by Azhar Ibrahim

Table of Contents: “…The challenge of an educative front -- The language of youth empowerment and social consciousness -- A pedagogy of active idealism for transformative youth -- (Mis)Underderstanding youth and living community -- Youth activism, educative and democratic empowerment -- Prophetic empowerment: reflections of N.F.S. grundtvig and Paulo Freire on the ideas on emancipative religion and education -- Intelligentsias and community development -- Crafting social engagement for community building: towards a conscientised generation -- The challenge of political illiteracy -- Paulo Freire's ideas in hegemonic discourse: the reception and/or resistance of Freirean critical pedagogy in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia -- Envisioning the future, nurturing presentness, leadership and educative enlightenment.…”

Voice of Islamic moderation from the Malay world by M. Kamal Hassan