Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds
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Description for Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds
Hardcover. This book applies the methods and techniques of anthropology to analyze the role of Islam in the social lives of Muslims. Tracks and assesses key developments of the last three decades, and discusses the place of Islam in the anthropology of world religions. Editor(s): Marsden, Magnus; Retsikas, Konstantinos. Series: Muslims in Global Societies Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HRHP; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their informants’ life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and from Yemen to China: thus they explore and ... Read more
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their informants’ life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and from Yemen to China: thus they explore and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Condition
New
Series
Muslims in Global Societies Series
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400742666
SKU
V9789400742666
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Ref
99-15
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Magnus Marsden is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He was previously a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and Graduate Officer in Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (2002-2007). He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and is the author of Living Islam: Muslim ... Read more
Reviews for Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds
From the reviews: “The papers are written in the frame of the debate about what constitutes an anthropology of Islam, and appropriately, respond with and from ethnographic work. … With its range of geographical contexts and authorial perspectives, it is a valuable contribution to thinking within the anthropology of Islam. … it raises issues that will help our understanding ... Read more