ARMANDO SALVATORE, ED., Muslim Traditions and Modern Techniques of Power, Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 3 (Münster and London: Lit Verlag, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001). $34.95 paper

This volume, a collection of essays by a group of mostly European-based, young scholars, should open the public sphere in Muslim societies to the same level of attention civil society enjoyed in the two-volume Civil Society in the Middle East, edited by A. R. Norton almost a decade ago.