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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What Is Islamic Studies? European And North American Approaches To A Contested Field -- Chapter 1. There Is No Data For Islam: Testing The Utility Of A Category -- Chapter 2. Critics As Caretakers, Religion As Critique -- Chapter 3. Talal Asad And The Question Of Islamic Secularities -- Chapter 4. Territory At Stake! In Defence Of 'religion' And 'islam' -- Chapter 5. Power Practices And Pop: The Islam Of Zain Bhikha -- Chapter 6. Islam In The Making: History, Discourses, The Quran And Modern Science -- Chapter 7. Paradigms Of Religion And The Swift Birth Of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited -- Chapter 8. Prospects For A New Idiom For Islamic History -- Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power And Critique As Ethical Tools -- About The Contributors -- Index Electronic Reproduction. New York Available Via World Wide Web.