Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant
liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign
nation-states. For contemporary scholars and policy makers, the
challenge is to insert meaningfully the political evolution of the
Middle East in the dominant liberal-democratic discourse about the
current international order without invoking ill-conceived notions
of Islamic exceptionalism. The analyses gathered in this book
challenge conventional 'western' perspectives on civility as an
expression of state-guaranteed free association in a non-violent
space of discourse and behaviour. Considering the articulation of
'civil' and 'civilized' state-society relations in contemporary
Middle Eastern polities, this book proposes both conceptual and
empirical insights into the dynamics of the local, national and
trans-national formation of civility and of the civil sphere.
Bypassing traditional oppositions between the 'western' and
'Islamic' modernity, it provides an account of the communicative
clusters of civility that represent the everyday formations of
Islamic and secular subjects in settings organized by
authoritarian-inclined state institutions and practices. It
examines how the grassroots formation of 'new' religious and
secular identities/subjectivities and their relations with the
'Other' underpin, as well as challenge and transform, the state-led
processes of political ordering of a national and regional
community. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Third World Quarterly.
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