Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor 's Note -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Civic Quests and Bequests- Amyn B.Sajoo -- Locating Civil Society In Islamic Contexts- Mohammed Arkoun -- Self,Society,Civility and Islam- Aziz Esmail -- Debating Women:Gender and the Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary Iran- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Soviet Legacies and Western Aid Imperatives in the New Central Asia- Olivier Roy -- Prospects for Civil Society in Tajikistan- Shirin Akiner -- Religiosity and Civic Culture in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: A Sociological Perspective Tair Faradov -- Ethics in the Civitas Amyn B.Sajoo -- State and Civil Society in Turkey: Democracy, Development and Protest- Ersin Kalaycıoglu -- Between Identity-Politics and Authoritarianism in Pakistan- Iftikhar H.Malik -- State,Society and Creed: Reflections on the Maghreb- Abdou Filali-Ansary -- Bibliography -- Index.