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Among the results of recent scholarly interest in the "World-Systems" perspective has been a revival of the debate concerning the origins of capitalism and the modern world economy. Despite the fact that the World-Systems approach at times seems as Eurocentric as some of the theories it purports to oppose, since the origins and "core" developments of both mercantilism and capitalism are considered to have been uniquely rooted in the socioeconomic experience of early modern Europe, it nonetheless offers historians the promise of studying social structural and economic changes in non-Western societies without recourse to the value judgments and prejudices implicit in models of development that employ such terms as "traditional society," "underdevelopment," or "modernization." By demonstrating that market and productive forces external to a particular regional economy and social system can intrude upon that system, dominate it, and eventually stimulate its transformation, thus creating wider changes in intrasocietal social relations, the World-Systems model has the potential of offering a conceptual point of departure of great value to students of social change in regions other than Europe during the early modern era.

In spite of the fact that it has been a favorite subject of scholars for more than seventy years, the religious history of Morocco, especially concerning the period before the French protectorate, remains at best incompletely studied and at worst completely misunderstood. This does not mean, however, that theories and indeed dogmatic assumptions have not been advanced, most notably in the study of what has been termed "popular religion," that exotic blend of "orthodox" scholasticism and "heterodox"praxisthat has made "Moroccan Islam" so interesting.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introductory Notes from the Editors -- After -- Seventy-Five Years -- End of War -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- The Wars Less Known -- The Dialectics of Disaster -- Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror -- A Muslim to Muslims: Reflections after September 11 -- Groundzeroland -- Dispelling the ''We'' Fallacy from the Body of Christ: The Task of Catholics in a Time of War -- Old Glory -- Welcome to the Desert of the Real! -- September 11 and the Children of Abraham -- L'Esprit du Terrorisme -- Our Good Fortune -- John Walker Lindh -- September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response -- Ground Zero; or, The Implosion of Church and State -- Afterword: From Virgin Land to Ground Zero -- Contributors -- Index