Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Other orientalist Crisis
Dale F. Eickelman
Part I: International and Regional Perspectives
I. United States Middle East Policy in the Cold War Era
Richard W. Cottam
II. Soviet Policy in Middle East: A Practitioner's Interpretation
Georgy M. Korniyenko
Part II: Central Asia
III. Central Asia's Political Crisis
Martha Brill Olcott
IV. Islam versus Communism: The Experience of Coexistence
Alexei V. Malashenko
V. Islamic Revivalism In Uzbekistan
Abdujabar Abduvakhitov
Part III: Afghanistan and Iran
VI. The Afghan Revolution: A Failed Experiment
Victor G. Korgun
VII. Words in the Balance: The Poetics of Political Dissent in Afghanistan
David B. Edwards
VIII. Reimagined Internal Frontiers: Tribes and Nationalism-Bakhtiyari and Kurds
Gene R. Garthwaite
Part IV: Pakistan
IX. Islam and the State in Pakistan
Vyacheslav Ya. Belokrenitsky
X. The Islamization of Welfare in Pakistan
Dimitri B. Novossyolov
XI. Islamization in Pakistan: The Sayyid and the Dancer
Richard Kurin
Conclusion: The Limits of Expert Knowledge
Muhammad Khalid Masud
Notes of Contributors
Index
