Ethnographies of Islam : ritual performances and everyday practices /

Ethnographies of Islam : ritual performances and everyday practices /

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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...

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Corporate Authors: Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund
Other Authors: Dupret, Baudouin, Pierret, Thomas, Pinto, Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha, Spellman-Poots, Kathryn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012
Edinburgh : c2012
Edinburgh : ©2012
Edinburgh : 2012
Series:Exploring Muslim contexts
Subjects:
Cultural pluralism > Religious aspects > Islam
Islam and civil society
Islam > Customs and practices
Islam > Rituals
Muslim diaspora
Muslims > Ethnic identity
Pluralism > Religious aspects > Islam
Religious life > Islam
Rites and ceremonies > Islamic countries
Islam
Muslims
Pluralism
Pluralism > Religious aspects
Rites and ceremonies
Islamic countries
Table of Contents:
  • Black magic, divination and remedial reproductive agency in Northern Pakistan / Emma Varley
  • Preparing for the Hajj in contemporary Tunisia : between religious and administrative ritual / Katia Boissevain
  • "There used to be terrible disbelief" : mourning and social change in Northern Syria / Katharina Lange
  • Manifestations of Ashura among young British Shi'is / Kathryn Spellman-Poots
  • The Ma'ruf : an ethnography of ritual (South Algeria) / Yazid Ben Hounet
  • The Sufi ritual of the Darb al-Shish and the ethnography of religious experience / Paulo G. Pinto
  • Preaching for converts : knowledge and power in the Sunni community in Rio de Janeiro / Gisele Fonseca Chagas
  • Worshipping the martyr president : the Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut / Ward Vloeberghs
  • Staging the authority of the Ulama : the celebration of the Mawlid in urban Syria / Thomas Pierret
  • - The Salafi and the others : an ethnography of intracommunal relations in French Islam / Cédric Baylocq and Akila Drici-Bechikh
  • Describing religious practices among university students : a case study from the University of Jordan, Amman / Daniel Cantini
  • Referring to Islam in mutual teasing : notes on an encounter between two Tanzanian revivalists / Sigurd D'hondt
  • Salafis as shaykhs : othering the pious in Cairo / Aymon Kreil
  • Ethics of care, politics of solidarity : Islamic charitable organisations in Turkey / Hilal ALkan-Zeybek
  • Making Shari'a alive : court practice under an ethnographic lens / Susanne Dahlgren
  • Referring to Islam as a practice : audiences, relevancies and language games within the Egyptian Parliament / Enrique Klaus and Baudouin Bupret
  • Contesting public images of ʻAbd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78) : who is an authentic scholar? / Hatsuki Aishima
  • Possessed of documents : hybrid laws and translated texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora / Michael Gilsenan
  • Part I : performing rituals
  • Part II : contextualising interactions
  • Part III : the ethnography of history
  • Part I. Performing rituals
  • Part II. Contextualising interactions
  • Part III. The ethnography of history

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