Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia Anthony Reid 2. Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule: Evolution of a Discourse Abdullah Saeed 3. Islam and Cultural Modernity: In Pursuit of Democratic Pluralism in Asia Bassam Tibi 4. The Crisis of Religious Authority: Education, Information and Technology Bryan Turner 5. Attempts to Use the Ottoman Caliphate as the Legitimator of British Rule in India Azmi Ozcan 6. An Argumentative Indian: Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, Islam, and Nationalism in India Barbara Metcalf 7. Grateful to the Dutch Government: Sayyid `Uthmân and the Sarekat Islam in 1913 Nico Kaptein 8. Power and Islamic Legitimacy in Pakistan Imran Ali 9. Constructions of Religious Authority in Indonesian Islamism: ‘The Way and the Community’ Re-Imagined Michael Feener 10. The Political Contingency of Reform-Mindedness in Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama: Interest Politics and the Khittah Greg Fealy 11. Political Islam in Malaysia: Legitimacy, Hegemony, and Resistance Joseph Liow