Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London and a specialist in the religion, culture and politics of the Middle East. He is the author of 'Law and Power in the Islamic World', 'Islam, the People and the State' and co-editor of 'A Taste of Thyme: the Culinary Cultures of the Middle East' (all I.B.Tauris).

• Introduction * 1. Is There a Muslim Society? * 2. Political Modernity in the Middle East * 3. Shifting Social Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Middle East * 5. Islam and Nationalism: Continuities and Contradictions * 6. The Public and the Private in Middle Eastern History and Society

Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London and a specialist in the religion, culture and politics of the Middle East. He is the author of 'Law and Power in the Islamic World', 'Islam, the People and the State' and co-editor of 'A Taste of Thyme: the Culinary Cultures of the Middle East' (all I.B.Tauris).

• Introduction * 1. Is There a Muslim Society? * 2. Political Modernity in the Middle East * 3. Shifting Social Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Middle East * 5. Islam and Nationalism: Continuities and Contradictions * 6. The Public and the Private in Middle Eastern History and Society

Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London and a specialist in the religion, culture and politics of the Middle East. He is the author of 'Law and Power in the Islamic World', 'Islam, the People and the State' and co-editor of 'A Taste of Thyme: the Culinary Cultures of the Middle East' (all I.B.Tauris).

• Introduction * 1. Is There a Muslim Society? * 2. Political Modernity in the Middle East * 3. Shifting Social Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Middle East * 5. Islam and Nationalism: Continuities and Contradictions * 6. The Public and the Private in Middle Eastern History and Society