Islam, Politics, Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Osella, Filippo; Soares, Benjamin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, Islam, Politics, Anthropology offers critical reflections on past and current studies of Islam and politics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches to examining Islam in the post-9/11 world. * Challenges current and past approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim politics in anthropology * Offers a critical comprehensive review of past and current literature on the subject * Presents innovative ethnographic description and analysis of everyday Muslim politics in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America * Proposes new analytical approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim politics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444324419
• Artikelnr.: 38457091

Autorenporträt

Filippo Osella is a Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. For the past 20 years, Osella has conducted research in South India, and more recently in a number of West Asian Gulf countries. His current research focuses on the emergence of Islamic reformist movements and the rise of a new Muslim middle class in Kerala. Benjamin Soares is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands. Soares' publications include Islam and the Prayer Economy (2005) and two edited volumes, Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa (2007) and Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors.

Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moralself in the lives of young Egyptians.

Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of theintellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo.

A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan.

Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge onthe double-periphery.

Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and thechallenges of a Malian public sphere.

Piety politics and the role of a transnational feministanalysis.

Mukadas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan.

Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi'spolitical thought and Islamism.

Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions amongIslamist women in Bangladesh.

Market Islam in Indonesia.

Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf:making good and doing good.

Islam and the politics of enchantment.

Index.