Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Marsden, Magnus (Editor), Retsikas, Konstantinos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Muslims in Global Societies Series ; 6
• Subjects: Religion.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Anthropology.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Magnus Marsden & Konstantinos Retsikas
• Shurafâ as cosmopolitans: Islam, genealogy and hierarchy in the Central Sahara  Judith Scheele
•  Death and the spirit of patriarchy in western India  Edward Simpson
• . On the skills to navigate the world, and religion, for coastal Muslims in Kenya Kai Kresse
• Beyond Islam: tradition and the intelligibility of experience Johan Rasanayagam
• Becoming sacred: humanity and divinity in East Java, Indonesia Konstantinos Retsikas
•  Self-similarity and its perils Gabriele vom Bruck
• The universal and the particular in rural Xinjiang: ritual commensality and the mosque community Chris Hann
•  Apolitical "Islamisation"? On the limits of religiosity in montane Morocco Matthew Carey
•  Integrity and commitment in the anthropology of Islam Morgan Clarke
•  Fieldwork in Pakistan and Afghanistan compared Magnus Marsden
• 11.Afterword: De-exceptionalising Islam   Simon Coleman.