UID:
almahu_9949569598602882
Format:
1 online resource (226 pages)
ISBN:
1-3995-0003-1
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1-3995-1339-7
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1-3995-0002-3
Series Statement:
Exploring Muslim contexts
Content:
Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present - covering topics from secularism and gender to pop music and modern science.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2022.
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Published in association with the Aga Khan University.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field --
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Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category --
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Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique --
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Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities --
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Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of ‘Religion’ and ‘Islam’ --
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Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha --
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Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science --
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Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited --
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Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History --
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Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools --
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About the Contributors --
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Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stenberg, Leif What Is Islamic Studies? Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2022 ISBN 9781399500005
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399500029
