Islam Politics Anthropology

Author : Filippo Osella,Benjamin Soares
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444324411

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Islam, Politics, Anthropology by Filippo Osella,Benjamin Soares Pdf

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 : Gabriele Marranci
Publisher : Berg
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847885432

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The Anthropology of Islam by Gabriele Marranci Pdf

An increasing number of people have questions about Islam and Muslims. But how can we approach and study Islam after September 11th? Which is the best methodology to understand an Islam that is changing in a globalized world? The Anthropology of Islam argues that Islam today needs to be studied as a living religion through the observation of everyday Muslim life. Drawing on extensive original fieldwork, Marranci provides provocative analyses of Islam and its relation to issues such as identities, politics, culture, power and gender. The Anthropology of Islam is unprecedented in its innovative and challenging discussion about fieldwork among Muslims, and its ethnographically based interpretations of contemporary aspects of Islam in a post-September 11th society. The book will appeal to those in anthropology and beyond who see and are interested in investigating the unsettled place of Islam in our multicultural society.

Author : Magnus Marsden,Konstantinos Retsikas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9400742665

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Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds by Magnus Marsden,Konstantinos Retsikas Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : LCCN:2002280764

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The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam by Talal Asad Pdf

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253007971

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Muslim Societies in Africa by Roman Loimeier Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Gabriele Marranci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789048133628

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Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Gabriele Marranci Pdf

Scholars from various disciplines worked together to present the first interdisciplinary book to address the issue of Islam, secularism and globalization. The book has a clear structure which represents its interdisciplinary approach: the first section addresses the philosophical and historical discussion about Islam and secularism; the second section discusses the topic from an ethnographical and social anthropological viewpoint; and the final section addresses Islam, secularism and globalization from a political viewpoint. This unique collection not only offers innovative research and new material, it also provides empirical examples and theoretical debates, and could therefore also be used as a textbook for courses on Islam, globalization, anthropology, politics, sociology and law.

Author : Annelies Moors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:1289423522

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Muslim Cultural Politics by Annelies Moors Pdf

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226726182

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Varieties of Muslim Experience by Lawrence Rosen Pdf

In Varieties of Muslim Experience, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist might be attracted to fundamentalism, and why the Prophet must be protected from blasphemous cartoons. What connects these seemingly disparate features of Arab social, political, and cultural life? Rosen argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships—a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation. Written with eloquence and a deep knowledge of the entire spectrum of Muslim experience, Rosen’s book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone invested in better understanding the Arab world.

Author : Saba Mahmood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691149806

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Politics of Piety by Saba Mahmood Pdf

An analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. The author's exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are linked within the context of such movements.

Author : Joshua D. Hendrick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814770801

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Gülen by Joshua D. Hendrick Pdf

The "Hizmet" ("Service") Movement of Fethullah Gülen is Turkey’s most influential Islamic identity community. Widely praised throughout the early 2000s as a mild and moderate variation on Islamic political identity, the Gülen Movement has long been a topic of both adulation and conspiracy in Turkey. In Gülen, Joshua D. Hendrick suggests that the Gülen Movement should be given credit for playing a significant role in Turkey's rise to global prominence. Hendrick draws on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey and the U.S. for his study. He argues that the movement’s growth and impact both inside and outside Turkey position both its leader and its followers as indicative of a "post political" turn in twenty-first century Islamic political identity in general, and as illustrative of Turkey’s political, economic, and cultural transformation in particular.

Author : Michael Gilsenan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134610549

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Recognizing Islam (RLE Politics of Islam) by Michael Gilsenan Pdf

Islam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily lives of its followers; he shows that all the Western stereotypes of Islam and its practitioners need to be treated with considerable scepticism. He demonstrates also that the understanding of Islam is dependent on recognizing a variety of class tensions and oppositions within an Islamic society. These have become all the more crucial in recent years with the growth of a capitalist economy, in which the forms and functions of the state have expanded considerably. This study focuses on the social and cultural divisions between very different groups and classes, ranging from the working masses of Cairo to the new bourgeoisie of Algeria and Morocco. The accent of the book is on the forms and transformations of Islam within these different societies. The impact of colonialism is discussed in this context, and reformist and radical Islamic movements are analyzed in relation to shifting structures in class and society at large. First published in 1982.

Author : Ralph Grillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317091141

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Muslim Families, Politics and the Law by Ralph Grillo Pdf

Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of workers and refugees and their settlement. Currently, however, there is widespread, often acrimonious, debate about ’other’ cultural and religious beliefs and practices and limits to their accommodation. This book focuses principally on Muslim families and on the way in which gender relations and associated questions of (women’s) agency, consent and autonomy, have become the focus of political and social commentary, with followers of the religion under constant public scrutiny and criticism. Practices concerning marriage and divorce are especially controversial and the book includes a detailed overview of the public debate about the application of Islamic legal and ethical norms (shari’a) in family law matters, and the associated role of Shari’a councils, in a British context. In short, Islam generally and the Muslim family in particular have become highly politicized sites of contestation, and the book considers how and why and with what implications for British multiculturalism, past, present and future. The study will be of great interest to international scholars and academics researching the governance of diversity and the accommodation of other faiths including Islam.

Author : Noah Salomon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691165158

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For Love of the Prophet by Noah Salomon Pdf

Introduction: In search of the Islamic state -- Of shaykhs and kings : the making of Sudanese Islam -- Civilizing religion -- In search of certainty -- The country that prays upon the Prophet the most : the aesthetic formation of the Islamic state -- Politics in an age of salvation -- Epilogue: escaping the Islamic state?

Author : Lahouari Addi
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626164505

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Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam by Lahouari Addi Pdf

Radical Arab nationalism emerged in the modern era as a response to European political and cultural domination, culminating in a series of military coups in the mid-20th century in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. This movement heralded the dawn of modern, independent nations that would close the economic, social, scientific, and military gaps with the West while building a unity of Arab nations. But this dream failed. In fact, radical Arab nationalism became a barrier to civil peace and national cohesion, most tragically demonstrated in the case of Syria, for two reasons: 1) national armies militarized nationalism and its political objectives; 2) these nations did not keep pace with the intellectual and political and cultural and social progress of European nations that offered, for example, freedom of speech and thought. It was the failure of radical Arab nationalism, Addi contends, that made the more recent political Islam so popular. But if radical nationalism militarized politics, the Islamists politicized religion. Today, the prevailing medieval interpretation of Islam, defended by the Islamists, prevents these nations from making progress and achieving the kind of social justice that radical Arab nationalism once promised. Will political Islam fail, too? Can nations ruled by political Islam accommodate modernity? Their success or failure, Addi writes, depends upon this question.

Author : Christopher Houston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030796570

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Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey by Christopher Houston Pdf

In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine. In distinguishing anthropocracy from varieties of other secular and laicist political arrangements, as well as from theocracy, this book also gives readers a brilliant solution to what it calls the Turkish puzzle, the dilemma over how to best describe and analyze state-religion and state-society relations in the Turkish Republic. This work convincingly undermines two orthodox presumptions about Turkish politics: the claim that Turkish modernity should be considered an example of secularity; and the accusation that the current AKP government should be interpreted as Islamic. On the contrary, it argues that both Kemalism and the AKP continue to institute an anthropocratic Republic.