Islam, politics, anthropology

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Islam, politics, anthropology

edited by Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Originally published as volume 15, special issue May 2009 of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii 1 Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella Islam, politics, anthropology 1 2 Samuli Schielke Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 23 3 Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 39 4 Magnus Marsden A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 54 5 Kai Kresse Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 72 6 Rosa De Jorio Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 91 7 Lara Deeb Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 107 8 Julie McBrien Mukadas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 121 9 Irfan Ahmad Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism 138 10 Maimuna Huq Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 156 11 Daromir Rudnyckyj Market Islam in Indonesia 175 12 Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 194 13 Gregory Starrett Islam and the politics of enchantment 213 Index 231

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