"In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize 'Islam' as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalised. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society and politics than ever before. This reader, which brings together the perspectives of various disciplines, provides an overview of academic approaches to Islam against the backdrop of these, in some cases tense,entanglements. Through two contributions from scholars working on Buddhism and Hinduism, these debates are situated in the context of broader trajectories of research history. In sum, this book does not only offer its readers entry points to a more complex and refined understanding of Islam, but also to research processes within the study of Islam as well as religion in general"--
This volume brings together the perspectives of various disciplines to provides an overview of academic approaches to Islam, and offers its readers entry points to a more complex and refined understanding of Islam, but also to research processes within the study of Islam as well as religion in general.
In recent decades, academic debates on how to conceptualize Islam as an object of study and how to approach it theoretically have been revitalized. Not only has research on Islam grown enormously and become much more differentiated, but Islam is also being discussed more intensively in society and politics than ever before.
This reader, which brings together the perspectives of various disciplines, provides an overview of academic approaches to Islam against the backdrop of these, in some cases tense, entanglements. Through two contributions from scholars working on Buddhism and Hinduism, these debates are situated in the context of broader trajectories of research history. In sum, this book does not only offer its readers entry points to a more complex and refined understanding of Islam, but also to research processes within the study of Islam as well as religion in general.
Introduction Part 1: Studying Islam and the 'Western' Order of Things
1.
Historicising Colonial Islam: Religion and Law in German East Africa
2. A
Dynamic Triangle: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, and
Toshihiko Izutsus Conceptualization of Islam
3. Who invented Buddhism? Or:
what was Buddhism before it was called Buddhism?
4. Hinduism, Santana
Dharma, and the Global Struggle about True Religion
5. Framing Islam as
Conceptual History
6. Decolonising Islam
7. Muslim Publics between
Discourses of Religion and Islam Part 2: Entangels Sites of Negotiation
8.
Conceptualising Islam in Europe: A Postcolonial Approach
9. Beyond the
Emic-Etic Distinction: Conceptualizing Islam in Our Inter-Connected World
10.
Is progressive Islam still Islamic? Examining the question through the
lens of Shahab Ahmeds approach to conceptualising Islam
11. Religion and/or
Culture? The Trouble with Conceptualizing Islam in Europe Part 3: Hegemonies
and Peripheries
12. Conceptualizing Muslim Sectarianism"
13. Genealogies of
Islam Noir: Racializing Islam
14. Conceptualizing in the Medieval Indian
Ocean World Part 4: Conceptual Approaches in Research Practice
15. God,
Islam, and Anthropology
16. What Does Discourse Theory Contribute? Capturing
Muslim Perspectives on Inheritance Law in Switzerland
17. Global and
Vernacular Patterns of Islamic Orthodoxy: A Discursive Perspective
18.
Charisma, Embodiment and Continuous Revelation: Broadening the Concept of
Islam
19. The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of
Islam After 'The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam' (1986)
Frank Peter is a Research Fellow at FAU Centre for Islam and Law in Europe in Erlangen. His current research examines articulations of Islam in contemporary France with a focus on digital media. He previously published Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Paula Schrode is a Professor of the Study of Religion specializing in contemporary Islam at the University of Bayreuth. Her current research focuses on the transnational entanglements of Turkish Islam and, in particular, the involvement of Turkish religious NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ricarda Stegmann is a Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and specializes in the fields of Islam in Europe and contemporary Sufism worldwide. Her particular research perspectives include discourse theory, colonial history, and a globally entangled history of religions.
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