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| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field -- Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category -- Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique -- Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities -- Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of 'Religion' and 'Islam' -- Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha -- Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science -- Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited -- Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History -- Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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Islam -- Study and teaching -- Europe.
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Islam -- Study and teaching -- North America.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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Islam -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00979852
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1399500007 9781399500005 (OCoLC)1264141103 |
| ISBN |
9781399500029 (electronic book) |
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1399500023 (electronic book) |
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