Islam, politics, anthropology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.272; 306.6/97; 306.697
• Soggetto topico: Political anthropology - Islamic countries; Islam and politics; Islam and culture; Politics and culture - Islamic countries
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Politics and government
• Altri autori: OsellaFilippo SoaresBenjamin F
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ISLAM, POLITICS, ANTHROPOLOGY; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1: Islam, politics, anthropology; 2: Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians; 3: Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo; 4: A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan; 5: Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery; 6: Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere ; 7: Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis8: Mukadas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan; 9: Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism; 10: Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh; 11: Market Islam in Indonesia; 12: Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good; 13: Islam and the politics of enchantment; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 anthropologyOffers a critical comprehensive review of past and current literature on the subjectPresents innovative ethnographic description and analysis of everyday Muslim politics in Asi
• Titolo autorizzato: Islam, politics, anthropology
• ISBN: 1-282-54971-5; 9786612549717; 1-4443-2440-3; 1-4443-2441-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910140607803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II