Table of Contents Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Islam encountering globalization: an introduction 1 2 West encountering Islam: Islamophobia reconsidered 14 3 Muslim encounters with new media: towards an inter-civilizational discourse on globality? 36 4 Reimagining the Ummah? Information technology and the changing boundaries of political Islam 61 5 Islam and human rights in the age of globalization 91 6 The culture and politics of human rights in the context of Islam 111 7 The globalization of rights in Islamic discourse 131 8 The World Cup and Iranians' 'home-coming': a global game in a local Islamicized context 156 9 Globalization and the underdeveloped Muslim world: a case study of Pakistan 178 10 Tradition versus ideology as a mode of political communication in Iran 207 Bibliography 222 Index 237