List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Three Ages of Utopianism in the Modern Middle East and North Africa Thomas Pierret and Simon Wolfgang Fuchs I. Aspirations of the Liberal Age 1. The Persian Dreams: The Constitutional Revolution and Fantasising over Lost and Envisaged Utopias Behzad Zerehdaran 2. Egypt 3105 CE: Salama Musa's Views on Utopia Ruben Schenzle II. Visions of High Modernity 3. The Idea of Secularism in Transcendent Turkish Utopias Rahime Çokay Nebioglu 4. The City is an Educator: Utopianism, Urbanism and the Creation of Republican Ankara Isaac Hand 5. Atomic Utopias in Egypt: Decolonisation, Techno-nationalism and Popular Science, 1945-50 Hebatalla Taha and Pelle Valetin Olsen III.

The City of God: Islamic Perspectives 6. Paradise on Earth: How the Muslim Brotherhood Built a 'Virtuous City' ( Madina Fadila ) in 'Abd al-Nasir's Prisons Mathias Ghyoot 7. The Utopian Caliphate: What Does the Caliphate Mean for the People? Mujtaba Ali Isani IV. Revolutionary Horizons and Authoritarian Dreams after the Radical Age 8. Practicing Utopia - Governing Effects of Democratic Confederalist Discourse in North and East Syria Julia Wartmann 9. Democracy Imagined from Below: An Analysis of the Revolutionary Imaginaries of the Tunisian Uprisings after 2011 Nabila Abbas 10. Borrowing Faces, Re-enacting Modernity: On a Photonovel by Fehras Publishing Practices Yazan Alloujami 11. Saudi's NEOM: A New 'Utopian City' Gluing the Jewel to the Crown Hend Aly Conclusion: From Utopian Dreams to Pragmatic Alter-citizenship and Low-key Utopias? Stéphanie Latte Abdallah and Simone Spera Selected Bibliography Index.