The public role of the "good Islam": sufi Islam and the administration of pluralism;. a Senegalese story / Mamadou Diouf -- A secular age and the world of Islam / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Islam's new visibility and the secular public / Beth A. Buggenhagen -- Dakar's Sunnite women: the dialectic of submission and defiance in a globalizing city / Erin Augis -- Sovereign Islam in a secular state: hidden knowledge and sufi governance among "taalibe baay" / Joseph Hill -- The Senegalese 'social contract' revisited: the Muridiyya muslim order and state politics / Cheikh Anta Babou -- Religion, ethnicity and the state: the triadic configuration of tolerance / Etienne Smith -- Islam, the originaires and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal / Mamadou Diouf -- Stateness, democracy, and respect: Senegal in comparative perspective / Alfred Stepan -- Negotiating Islam in the era of democracy: Senegal in comparative regional perspective / Leonardo A. Villalon.