CONTENTS

Killing for Blasphemy and the Ghost of al Qaeda in Bangladesh - Taj Hashmi   Page 1 - 39
A Balanced Exposé? : 'Capturing' the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Muhammed Haron   Page 40 - 55
The Other Public Sphere: Muslim Reformist Discourse on Abolition during the Colonial Period - Ryan Misler   Page 56 - 74
Bourdieu and Bengali Islam: A Spatial-temporal Discussion of the Adoption and Social Utility of Islam for British Bangladeshi Muslim Workers - Abdul Aziz   Page 75 - 104
Aspiring to Rise: Agitation of Muslim 'Other Backward Classes' in Uttar Pradesh - Abdul Waheed and Sheikh Idrees Mujtaba   Page 105 - 126
Repression A Myth: An Enquiry into the Muslim Woman's World and her Sexuality - Ayesha Arfeen   Page 127 - 139

Issues / Discussion Forum

Islamic history is full of free thinkers - but recent attempts to suppress critical thought are verging on the absurd - Ziauddin Sardar   Page 140 - 145
Who speaks for Islam in India? - Arshad Alam   Page 146 - 148
What is to be a Muslim in America Today? - Mustapha Marrouchi   Page 149 - 151

Book Review

Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education by Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog - Mehraj Din   Page 152 - 155

Some Recent Publications on Islam/Muslims

Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought  Page 156 - 157
Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam ,   Page 158
Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities,   Page 159
Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Realities   Page 160
Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st Century   Page 161-162
Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective   Page 163