Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Author： Filippo Osella  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9781444324419

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781444332957

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781444332957

Subject： B96 伊斯兰教（回教）

Language： ENG

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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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1: Islam, politics, anthropology

2: Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians

3: Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo

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

5: Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery

6: Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere

7: Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis

8: Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan

9: Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi’s political thought and Islamism

10: Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh

11: Market Islam in Indonesia

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

13: Islam and the politics of enchantment

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