Editor : Nadeem Hasnain

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