| Acknowledgments | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Introduction | |
| Glossary | |
| 1 | Islam and State Expansion in Algeria:Nineteenth-Century Saharan Frontiers | 3 |
| 2 | "The Masses Look Ardently to Istanbul": Tunisia, Islam, and the Ottoman Empire, 1837-1931 | 23 |
| 3 | A Rereading of Islamic Texts in the Maghrib in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Secular Themes or Religious Reformism? | 37 |
| 4 | Salafis and Modernists in the Moroccan Nationalist Movement | 53 |
| 5 | Continuities and Discontinuities in the Algerian Confrontation with Europe | 73 |
| 6 | The Political and the Religious in the Modern History of the Maghrib | 87 |
| 7 | Islamism and Islamists: The Emergence of New Types of Politico-Religious Militants | 103 |
| 8 | Doctrinaire Economics and Political Opportunism in the Strategy of Algerian Islamism | 123 |
| 9 | The Al-Nahda Movement in Tunisia: From Renaissance to Revolution | 149 |
| 10 | Secularism and Nationalism: The Political Discourse of 'Abd al-Salam Yassin | 167 |
| 11 | Militant Islam and Its Critics: The Case of Libya | 187 |
| 12 | The Challenge of Democratic Alternatives in the Maghrib | 201 |
| 13 | Islam, Democracy, and the State: The Reemergence of Authoritarian Politics in Algeria | 219 |
| 14 | Re-Imagining Religion and Politics: Moroccan Elections in the 1990s | 253 |
| 15 | Islam and the State in Algeria and Morocco: A Dialectical Model | 275 |
| Index | 289 |