Introduction, 1. Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber on Islam, 2. The Institutionalization of Early Islamic Societies, 3. Aspects of Islamization: Weber's Observations on Islam Reconsidered, 4. Islamization in Late Medieval Bengal:The Relevance of Max Weber, 5. Max Weber and the Patrimonial Empire in Islam: The Mughal, 6. Paradise or Hell? The Religious Doctrine of Election in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Islamic Fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism, 7. Weber and Islamic Reform, 8. Secularization, Weber, and Islam, 9. Weber, Islamic Law, and the Rise of Capitalism, 10. Weber and Islamic Sects, 11. Weber's Analysis of Islam and the Specific Pattern of Islamic Civilization.