The Anthropology Of Islam
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Author |
: Gabriele Marranci |
Publisher |
: Berg |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845202859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845202856 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of Islam by : Gabriele Marranci
Acknowledgements p. ix 1 Introduction p. 1 2 Islam: Beliefs, History and Rituals p. 13 3 From Studying Islam to Studying Muslims p. 31 4 Studying Muslims in the West: Before and After September 11 p. 53 5 From the Exotic to the Familiar: Anamneses of Fieldwork among Muslims p. 71 6 Beyond the Stereotype: Challenges in Understanding Muslim Identities p. 89 7 The Ummah Paradox p. 103 8 The Dynamics of Gender in Islam p. 117 9 Conclusion p. 139 Glossary p. 147 References p. 151 Index p. 173
Author |
: Jens Kreinath |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 041578025X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415780254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of Islam Reader by : Jens Kreinath
The Anthropology of Islam Reader brings together a rich variety of ethnographic work, offering an insight into various forms of Islam as practiced in different geographic, social, and cultural contexts. Topics explored include Ramadan and the Hajj, the Feast of Sacrifice, and the representation of Islam. An extensive introduction and bibliography helps students develop their understanding of the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches involved in the anthropological study of Islam. In his selections, Jens Kreinath highlights the diversity of practices and themes that were formative for this field of study, making this essential reading for students of Islam at undergraduate and graduate level.
Author |
: John R. Bowen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2012-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521529785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521529786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Anthropology of Islam by : John R. Bowen
This powerful, accessible new study explores the contributions that anthropology has made to the study and understanding of Islam.
Author |
: Aria Nakissa |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2019-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190932893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190932899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of Islamic Law by : Aria Nakissa
The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. The book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, using ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts. The book focuses on higher religious learning in contemporary Egypt, examining its intellectual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions. Data is drawn from fieldwork inside al-Azhar University, Cairo University's Dar al-Ulum, and the network of traditional study circles associated with the al-Azhar mosque. Together these sites constitute the most important venue for the transmission of religious learning in the contemporary Muslim world. The book gives special attention to contemporary Egypt, and also provides a broader analysis relevant to Islamic legal doctrine and religious education throughout history.
Author |
: Magnus Marsden |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2012-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400742673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400742673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds by : Magnus Marsden
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their informants’ life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and from Yemen to China: thus they explore and compare Islam’s social significance in a variety of settings that are not confined to the Middle East or South Asia alone. The authors assess how helpful current anthropological research is in shedding light on Islam’s relationship to contemporary societies. Collectively, the contributors deploy both theoretical and ethnographic analysis of key developments in the anthropology of Islam over the last 30 years, even as they extrapolate their findings to address wider debates over the anthropology of world religions more generally. Crucially, they also tackle the thorny question of how, in the current political context, anthropologists might continue conducting sensitive and nuanced work with Muslim communities. Finally, an afterword by a scholar of Christianity explores the conceptual parallels between the book’s key themes and the anthropology of world religions in a broader context. This volume has key contemporary relevance: for example, its conclusions on the fluidity of people’s relations with Islam will provide an important counterpoint to many commonly held assumptions about the incontestability of Islam in the public sphere.
Author |
: Talal Asad |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 22 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:2002280764 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam by : Talal Asad
Author |
: Filippo Osella |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2010-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1444324411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781444324419 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islam, Politics, Anthropology by : Filippo Osella
Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute SpecialIssue Book Series, Islam, Politics, Anthropology offerscritical reflections on past and current studies of Islam andpolitics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches toexamining Islam in the post-9/11 world. Challenges current and past approaches to the study of Islamand Muslim politics in anthropology Offers a critical comprehensive review of past and currentliterature on the subject Presents innovative ethnographic description and analysis ofeveryday Muslim politics in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, andNorth America Proposes new analytical approaches to the study of Islam andMuslim politics
Author |
: Morgan Clarke |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845459239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845459237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islam and New Kinship by : Morgan Clarke
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature. Lebanon, home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities, provides a valuable site through which to explore the overall dynamism and diversity of global Islamic debate. As this book shows, Muslim perspectives focus on the moral propriety of such controversial procedures as the use of donor sperm and eggs as well as surrogacy arrangements, which are allowed by some authorities using surprising and innovative legal arguments. These arguments challenge common stereotypes of the rigidity and conservatism of Islamic law and compel us to question conventional contrasts between ‘liberal’ and Islamic notions of moral freedom, as well as the epistemological assumptions of anthropology’s own ‘new kinship studies’. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Islam and the impact of reproductive technology on the global social imaginary.
Author |
: Roman Loimeier |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2013-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253027320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253027322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Muslim Societies in Africa by : Roman Loimeier
Muslim Societies in Africa provides a concise overview of Muslim societies in Africa in light of their role in African history and the history of the Islamic world. Roman Loimeier identifies patterns and peculiarities in the historical, social, economic, and political development of Africa, and addresses the impact of Islam over the longue durée. To understand the movements of peoples and how they came into contact, Loimeier considers geography, ecology, and climate as well as religious conversion, trade, and slavery. This comprehensive history offers a balanced view of the complexities of the African Muslim past while looking toward Africa's future role in the globalized Muslim world.
Author |
: Clifford Geertz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1971-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226285111 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226285115 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islam Observed by : Clifford Geertz
"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan." Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.