Introduction Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: Akhl?q in theVernacular Educating Muslim Intellectuals Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial État Civil, 1850-1900 British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar Kenyan Muslims and the Political Imagination of Space on theIndian Ocean Rim Sovereignty, Slavery and Diplomacy in Late Eighteenth-Century Sulu The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean The Politics of Identity and Religion Religious Routes to Racial Progress in West Africa The Lhasa Uprisings of 1959 and 2008 Muslims and Politics in the Southern Philippines Walls, Wonder, and the Edges of the Muslim World Alevi Cemevis and "Mosque Culture" in Turkey Visual Depictions of Muslim Heroines A Russian Columbus Media Coverage of Islam in Contemporary Germany andthe United States Muslim Devotional Singing in the Two Bengals Reflections on Art and Nation Building Ottoman Modernization and the Translation Bureau Reading Cultural Translation Transliminal Comparisons in the Tombstone Inscriptions ofMuslim and Christian Rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia The Tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen.