Across the worlds of Islam: Muslim identities, beliefs, and practices from Asia to America
This book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated commun...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Religious practice
/ Religious identity
/ Religious sociology
/ Comparison of cultures
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Islamic sociology B Islamic sects B Minorities (Islamic countries) Social conditions B Electronic books B Minorities Religious aspects Islam |
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| Summary: | This book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction, by Edward E. Curtis IV -- 1. Islam and Its Others: Ambivalent Orientations Toward the Margins of Islam, by Farah Bakaari -- 2. Rethinking the Center: Margins and Multiplicity in Hadith Texts, by Michael Muhammad Knight -- 3. Islamic Tattooing: Embodying Healing, Materializing Relationships, and Mediating Tradition, by Max Johnson Dugan -- 4. Lover's Words Are Eternal: Alevi Ashik Poetry Beyond the Margins, by Tess M. Waggoner -- Illustrations -- 5. On the Margins of Islamic Doctrine, at the Heart of Islamic Ethics: Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and Black Liberation, by Edward E. Curtis IV -- 6. Love and Care at the Margins of Future Generations, by Holly Donahue Singh -- 7. Writing Mongol History on the Margins: Sufi and Kinship Connectivity in the Tarikh-i Rashidi, by Henry D. Brill -- 8. Journey to the Teaching of Islam, by Kathryn D. Blanchard -- Conclusion: Let the Margins Be the Center, by Vernon James Schubel -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index. "Unlike the majority of introductions to Islam, which all too often elide essential theological and legal debates in favor of presenting a homogenized Middle East-centric view of what Islam represents to all Muslims, this book provides a balanced perspective on Sunni, Shia, and Sufi Islam at the geographic, social, political, embodied, reproductive, and doctrinal margins. Its objective is to develop an inclusive vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities. By paying attention to the values, stories, and practices that characterize Muslim life across sectarian division we are able to render a nuanced portrait that transcends debates about orthodoxy and normativity and gives us more encompassing and accurate views of the forms that Islam takes and how Muslims think and act socially, culturally, theologically, and politically. It becomes apparent that inhabitants of regions beyond the Middle East are not heretics or infidels but rather central to the past, present, and future of the Muslim world. Chapter authors were commissioned by the editor specifically for the book. They include Farah Bakaari (English, Cornell) writing on Islam and its others, Michael Muhammad Knight (novelist and journalist, Philosophy, Central Florida) on rethinking the center of Islam, Tess Waggoner (Near Eastern Studies, NYU) on Turkish Alevi Ashiks, Holly Donahue Singh (Anthropology, Honors College, South Florida) on the ethical practices of Indian Muslim women, Henry Brill (policymaker, History, Georgetown) on 16th-century Mongol Sufi scholar Mirza Muhammad Haydar Dughlat, Kathryn Blanchard (Religious Studies, Alma) on teaching Islam as a non-Muslim, and Curtis himself on Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam, and Black liberation, among others"-- |
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| ISBN: | 023155852X |