Armando Salvatore is Reader in Comparative Historical Sociology and Social Theory at Humboldt University, Berlin. His Ph.D. thesis was granted the 1994 Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). It was later published as "Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity" (1997). He has edited several volumes, including "Public Islam and the Common Good" (with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), "Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies" (2005, with Mark LeVine), and" Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Persp...