...1994:26-27, 37). Imagining Politics Muslim politics involves the competition and contest over both the interpretation of symbols and control of the institutions,...formal and informal, that produce and sustain them. The interpretation of symbols is played out against the background of an underlying framework that,...

...society depends on a process of “competition and contest over both the interpretation of llslamici symbols and control of the institutions, formal and informal, that produce and sustain them” )Eickelman and Piscatoni i996, ¿; cf, Esposito and Voll 1996). It is just such a contest that is unfolding...

...the Muslim world has unleashed "competition and contest over both the interpretation of [religious] symbols and control of the institutions, formal and informal, that produce and sustain them.'" 30 Mass education and mass marketing have intensified the competition, creating vast but segmented...

...transformation. The Muslim world itself is being shaken by competition over ‘the interpretations of symbols and control of the institutions, formal and informal that produce them, and sustain them'. 42 Muslim immigrants cannot comfort themselves that tradition is secure at...

...what Eickelman and Piscatori conceptualised as Muslim politics: 'the competition and contest over both the interpretation of symbols and control of the institutions,...formal and informal, that produce and sustain them' (Eickelman and Piscatori, 1996, 5). It is then an absolute necessity to define Islamism in the Turkish...

...became involved in what Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori call "competition and contest over both the interpretation of symbols and control of the institutions,...formal and informal, that produce and sustain them". 18 Because of the major changes taking place in the transitional situation, some of them used the opportunity...

...societies, a pattern of "Muslim politics" has emerged, which involves the competition and contest over both the interpretation of symbols and control of the institutions,...formal and informal, that produce and sustain them. 4 "Muslim" modifies "politics" here because the symbols and institutions, though religious, are used...

...society depends on a process of "competition and contest over both the interpretation of [Islamic] symbols and control of the institutions, formal and informal, that produce and sustain them". It is just such a contest that is unfolding in Indonesia right now. The question is not just the simplistic...