Cancelled - Civility and Charisma in the Islamic Ecumene: A Socio-Historical Approach

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Armando Salvatore is Professor of Global Religious Studies and Keenan Chair of Interfaith Studies at McGill University, Montreal. From 2017 he will be a Professor at the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra. His work as a social scientist explores the Islamic ecumene's socio-political trajectories as well as transcultural interconnections with Western and Eastern traditions and civilizations. He has just published The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility, and is editing The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Among his previous works are Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (1997), Public Islam and the Common Good (edited with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism and Islam (2007), and Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (edited with Muhammad Khalid Masud and Martin van Bruinessen, 2009).