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
