What is Islamic studies? : European and North American approaches to a contested field / / edited by Leif Stenberg and Philip Wood [[electronic resource]]
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What is Islamic studies? : European and North American approaches to a contested field / / edited by Leif Stenberg and Philip Wood [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 297.77094 |
| Soggetto topico: | Islam - Study and teaching - Europe |
| Islam - Study and teaching - North America | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe |
| North America | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | StenbergLeif <1959-> |
| WoodPhilip <1982-> | |
| Note generali: | Also issued in print: 2022. |
| Published in association with the Aga Khan University. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | What is Islamic studies |
| ISBN: | 1-3995-0003-1 |
| 1-3995-1339-7 | |
| 1-3995-0002-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910737383303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Exploring Muslim contexts.
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