Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam in Literary Production -- Roads Not Taken : Arab Modernity and the Loose Ties with the Street -- Before Bidding Farewell: What Do Narratives of Education Say? -- Duktur Ibrahim -- Yahya Haqqis Qindil Umm Hashim -- Writing Ibn Taymiyyah : Sharqawis Difficult Choice in Literary Biography -- The Religious Dynamic -- Recruitments in a Political Vacuum: Mahfuz's Layali Alf Laylah : Arabian Nights and Days -- 'Ala al-Aswani : 'Imarat Ya'qubian (The Yacoubian Building) -- Mass Culture Narratives -- `Abd al-Hakim Qasim : The Seven Days of Man -- The Politics/Poetics of Contemporary Islamic Popular Narrative : The Case of Najib Mahfuz's The Epic of the Harafish -- In the Aftermath of Failures : The Reliance on Popular Religious Politics -- The Global, the National, and Islamic Faith in Jamal al-Ghitani's Zaynl Barakdt -- `Abd al-Hakim Qasim's Al-Mahdi -- Which Door to an Enclave? Najib Mahfuz's al-Liss wa al-Kildb : The Thief and the Dogs -- The Search for Islam -- Tawfiq al-Hakims Bird of the East and the Door to Faith -- The Shrine of Atia : A Novella by Salwa Bakr -- Najib Mahfuz, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma -- The Bifurcated Poetic : Islam as Poetry -- What Might or Might Not Come.

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Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, from among the more militant groups in Islam, and by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses.

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