1. Introduction: invoking political civility in the Middle East
Frédéric Volpi.
2. Civility: Between Disciplined Interaction and Local/Translocal Connectedness
Armando Salvatore.
3. Framing civility in the Middle East: alternative perspectives on the state and civil society.
Frédéric Volpi.
4. Authoritarian Government, Neo-Liberalism and Everyday Civilities in Egypt
Salwa Ismail.
5. An Uncivil Partnership: Egypt’s Gama’a Islamiyya and the State after the Jihad
Ewan Stein.
6. Transitional African Spaces in Comparative Analysis: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Informality in Morocco and Cape Verde
Pedro F. Marcelino and Hermon Farahi.
7. Fascism, Civility and the Crisis of the Turkish State
Tim Jacoby.
8. Hizbullah in the Civilising Process: Anarchy, Self-Restraint and Violence
Adham Saouli.
9. Official Islam and the Limits of Communicative Action: The Paradox of the Amman Message
Michaelle Browers.
10. The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces
Emma C. Murphy.
11.Dis-Orienting Clusters of Civility
S. Sayyid.
12. Epilogue: Civilities, Subjectivities and Collective Action: Preliminary Reflections in Light of the Egyptian Revolution
Salwa Ismail.
Biography
Frédéric Volpi is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies at the University of St Andrews. His research addresses the political construction of Islamism and democratic-authoritarian interactions in the Muslim world. His latest book is Political Islam Observed: Disciplinary Perspective (Columbia University Press, 2010).
