1st Edition
Conceptualizing Islam Current Approaches
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, and Ricarda Stegmann
Part I Studying Islam and the 'Western' Order of Things
1. Historicising Colonial Islam: Religion and Law in German East Africa
Jörg Haustein
2. A Dynamic Triangle: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, and Toshihiko Izutsu’s Conceptualization of Islam
Armando Salvatore and Kieko Obuse
3. Who Invented Buddhism? Or: What Was Buddhism Before It Was Called Buddhism?
Christoph Kleine
4. Hinduism, Sanātana Dharma, and the Global Struggle About “True Religion”
Julian Strube
5. Framing Islam as Conceptual History
Reinhard Schulze
6. Decolonising ‘Islam’
Sajjad Rizvi
7. Muslim Publics between Discourses of Religion and Islam
Abdulkader Tayob
Part II Entangled Sites of Negotiation
8. Conceptualising “Islam in Europe”: A Postcolonial Approach
Schirin Amir-Moazami
9. Beyond the Emic-Etic Distinction: Conceptualizing Islam in Our Inter-Connected World
Megan Brankley Abbas
10. Is “Progressive Islam” Still “Islamic”? Examining the Question through the Lens of Shahab Ahmed’s Approach to Conceptualising Islam
Adis Duderija
11. Religion and/or Culture?: The Trouble with Conceptualizing Islam in Europe
Jeanette S. Jouili
Part III Hegemonies and Peripheries
12. Conceptualizing Muslim “Sectarianism"
Adam R. Gaiser
13. Genealogies of Islam Noir: Racializing Islam
Robert Launay
14. Conceptualizing Islam in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
Sebastian Prange
Part IV Conceptual Approaches in Research Practice
15. God, Islam, and Anthropology
Amira Mittermaier
16. What Does Discourse Theory Contribute? Capturing Muslim Perspectives on Inheritance Law in Switzerland
Ricarda Stegmann
17. Global and Vernacular Patterns of Islamic Orthodoxy – A Discursive Perspective
Paula Schrode
18. Charisma, Embodiment and Continuous Revelation: Broadening the Concept of Islam
Markus Dressler
19. The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of Islam after “The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam” (1986)
Frank Peter
Index
Biography
Frank Peter is a Research Fellow at FAU Centre for Islam and Law in Europe in Erlangen. His current research examines articulations of Islam in contemporary France with a focus on digital media. He previously published Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Paula Schrode is a Professor of the Study of Religion specializing in contemporary Islam at the University of Bayreuth. Her current research focuses on the transnational entanglements of Turkish Islam and, in particular, the involvement of Turkish religious NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ricarda Stegmann is a Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and specializes in the fields of Islam in Europe and contemporary Sufism worldwide. Her particular research perspectives include discourse theory, colonial history, and a globally entangled history of religions.
