Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- 1. Introduction: Islamic Globalization -- Pilgrimage and Religious Travel -- Capitalism and Islamic Finance -- Democracy and Islamic Modernism -- Diplomacy and Great Power Politics -- I: Pilgrimage and Religious Travel -- 2. A Pilgrim's Eye View of the Hajj -- The Triumph of Experience over Ritual -- Dethroning Arabian Pretensions -- Bringing the Hajj Home -- 3. The Contemporary Hajj -- Characteristics -- Symbols and Meanings -- Recent Political History -- The Hajj and Islamic Law -- 4. The Hajj and Human Migration -- Social Revolution -- Global Community -- Poetic Imagination -- 5. Women's Participation in the Hajj -- 6. Religious Travel in Islam -- II. Capitalism and Islamic Finance -- 7. Capitalism and Islam -- Islam as an Obstacle to Capitalism -- Islam as a Variety of Capitalism -- Islam as an Alternative to Capitalism -- 8. The Battle for the Soul of Islamic Finance-If It Has One -- Moving to the Middle -- Good Things Come in Small Packages -- The Ethical Edge -- Working Together -- The Permanent Revolution in Islamic Finance -- 9. The Revolution in Islamic Finance -- Integration with the Global Financial Order -- Coordinating with Islamic International Organizations -- Penetrating Mass Markets -- Islamic Finance and the Democratization of Religious Thought -- 10. Islamic Finance and the International System: Integration without Colonialism -- The Kozlowski-Bin Laden Effect: From the Washington Consensus to Basel II and SOX -- Business Is Business and a Dollar Isn't What It Used To Be -- Will Westerners Take Over Islamic Finance? -- The 'Ulama and the Accounting Firms: Probity Versus Sorcery -- When Is There Too Much Convergence and Harmonization? -- International Regimes and Transnational Civil Societies -- III. Democracy and Islamic Modernism.

11. Egypt's Revolutionary Elections -- Nationwide Alignments of the Major Parties -- Key Match-ups between Parties in Local Districts -- Four Arenas of Social Struggle-Class and Religious Conflicts in Urban and Rural Districts -- Nur Rocks the World -- Partitioning Kafr al-Sheikh -- Crushing the Landlords -- Fayyum and its Multiple Discontents -- Religious Clashes in Town and Country -- Appendix 11.A. The Major Political Parties -- Appendix 11.B. The Timeline and Structure of the Elections -- Appendix 11.C. Nationwide Vote for Party Lists -- Appendix 11.D. Party List Votes -- Appendix 11.E. Voter Turnout -- Appendix 11.F. Disparities in District Apportionment -- Note on Data and Methods -- Note on the Canal Zone and Border Regions -- 12. The Social and Economic Bases of Ennahdha Power: Khaldunian and Tocquevillian Reflections on the Tunisian Elections -- Suicide is Painless -- From the Grand Mosaic to the Seven Tunisias -- Identifying and Explaining Ennahdha Power -- Aquatic Politics in Tunis-Between the Salt Flats, the Lake, and the Sea -- Networking the Honeycombs of Sfax -- The Tunisian Tigers -- The Integrative Potential of Conflict in National Reconciliation -- Appendix 12.A. The Major Political Parties -- Note on Regional Cleavages -- Note on Ecology, Society, and Politics -- 13. On Liberty and Human Interest in the Work of Iliya Harik -- The Missing Citizens of Lebanon -- Semi-Liberating the Fellahin -- States, Markets, and Social Balancing -- Liberty as Self-Knowledge and Critical Conversation -- 14. Leonard Binder's Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Developmental Ideologies -- 15. Philosophers, Lawyers, and Journalists: Arab and Turkish Ventures in Modernist Islam -- Mohammed Arkoun: The Ummah as Living Utopia -- Kamal Aboulmagd: The Virtues of Dualism -- Ali Bulaç: The Medina Constitution and the Turkish Army.

The Many Uses of Legal Pluralism in Turath Discourse -- IV. Diplomacy and Great Power Politics -- 16. Morsy in Beijing: Implications for America's Relations with China and the Islamic World -- 17. China-Middle East Relations in Light of Obama's Pivot to the Pacific -- China's Dual Destiny-The Mongol Vocation and the Celebration of Zheng He -- Mainstreaming Chinese Islam -- The Hajj and the Great West -- Currency Wars -- The Libya Expedition -- Pondering the New Egypt -- The Problem of Timing -- The Virus in the Homeland -- Three Pillars of China's Greater Middle East Strategy -- 18. China and the United States in the Middle East and the Islamic World -- Power Sharing and Power Struggles -- Building Regimes Instead of Empires -- A Sino-American Agenda for the Middle East and the Islamic World -- Beyond Trust -- Coming Out of the Closet -- The Road More Traveled By…to the Dark Side -- Tailoring the Bargain for the People Who Matter Most -- Disposition and Potential: The Other China Model -- Applying Practical Knowledge to Profit from Ripening Potentials -- 19. The Lands of Islam in a China-Led Afro-Eurasia -- The Debates and Their Implications -- Chinese and American Approaches to the Islamic World -- Why Asians and Africans Might Be Learning More Than Westerners from New Scholarship on Global Connectivity -- 20. Conclusion: Toward a New Concert of Civilizations -- Empowering Muslims Instead of Trying to Subdue Them -- Reclaiming the Homelands from the Xenophobes -- Building a Global Ethic for World Governance -- Bibliography -- Index.