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1 online resource (vi, 202 pages) : illustrations. |
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Exploring Muslim contexts
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Exploring Muslim contexts.
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Published in association with the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Performing rituals. 1. Black magic, divination and remedial reproductive agency in Northern Pakistan / Emma Varley -- 2. Preparing for the Hajj in contemporary Tunisia : between religious and administrative ritual / Katia Boissevain -- 3. "There used to be terrible disbelief" : mourning and social change in Northern Syria / Katharina Lange -- 4. Manifestations of Ashura among young British Shi'is / Kathryn Spellman-Poots -- 5. The Ma'ruf : an ethnography of ritual (South Algeria) / Yazid Ben Hounet -- 6. The Sufi ritual of the Darb al-Shish and the ethnography of religious experience / Paulo G. Pinto -- 7. Preaching for converts : knowledge and power in the Sunni community in Rio de Janeiro / Gisele Fonseca Chagas -- 8. Worshipping the martyr president : the Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut / Ward Vloeberghs -- 9. Staging the authority of the Ulama : the celebration of the Mawlid in urban Syria / Thomas Pierret -- Part II. Contextualising interactions. 10. The Salafi and the others : an ethnography of intracommunal relations in French Islam / Cédric Baylocq and Akila Drici-Bechikh -- 11. Describing religious practices among university students : a case study from the University of Jordan, Amman / Daniel Cantini -- 12. Referring to Islam in mutual teasing : notes on an encounter between two Tanzanian revivalists / Sigurd D'hondt -- 13. Salafis as shaykhs : othering the pious in Cairo / Aymon Kreil -- 14. Ethics of care, politics of solidarity: Islamic charitable organisations in Turkey / Hilal ALkan-Zeybek -- 15. Making Shari'a alive : court practice under an ethnographic lens / Susanne Dahlgren -- 16. Referring to Islam as a practice : audiences, relevancies and language games within the Egyptian Parliament / Enrique Klaus and Baudouin Bupret -- 17. Contesting public images of ʻAbd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78) : who is an authentic scholar? / Hatsuki Aishima -- Part III. The ethnography of history. 18. Possessed of documents : hybrid laws and translated texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora / Michael Gilsenan. |
| Summary |
Explores the impact of the ethnographic method on the representation of Islam in anthropology.. This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilisation have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom. Such discourses are countered by the contributors who show the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and promote a reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology. Key Features. shows the benefit of using ethnography as a method to engage with and relate to specific empirical realities includes case studies on rituals and symbols in Syria, Tunisia, Damascus, Algeria, Britain, Pakistan, Brazil and Lebanon covers practices such as veiling, students' religious practices, charitable activities, law, and scholarship in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religious life -- Islam.
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Religious life -- Islam. |
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Islam -- Customs and practices.
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Islam -- Customs and practices. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- Islamic countries.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Islamic countries. |
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Islam -- Rituals.
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Islam -- Rituals. |
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Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Muslim diaspora.
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Muslims -- Ethnic identity.
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Islam and civil society.
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Muslim diaspora. |
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Muslims -- Ethnic identity. |
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General. |
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Muslims. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Islam and civil society. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dupret, Baudouin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ethnographies of Islam. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748645503 (DLC) 2012494442 (OCoLC)800854520 |
| ISBN |
0748645519 (electronic book) |
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9780748645510 (electronic book) |
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9780748654796 (e-book) |
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0748654798 (e-book) |
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9780748645503 (hardback) |
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0748645500 (hardback) |
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9780748654789 |
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