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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
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Routledge
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The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists and historians convey is a feeling of dissatisfaction with the very term. Their uneasiness relates to the conceptual problems... Read more
Chapter 1 Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts, Leif Manger; Chapter 2 Global Migrants and Local Shrines: The Shifting Geography of Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Katy Gardner; Chapter 3 The Theological Construction of Conflict: Gilgit, Northern Pakistan, Tor H. Aase; Chapter 4 Jih?d in West Africa: A Global Theme in a Regional Setting, Knut S. Vikør; Chapter 5 The Salafiyya Movement in Northwest China: Islamic Fundamentalism among Muslim Chinese?, Dru C. Gladney; Chapter 6 To Colour, Not Oppose: Spreading Islam in Rural Java, Eldar Bråten; Chapter 7 Faith and Identity in Northeast Syria, Annika Rabo; Chapter 8 The Mosque and the Sacred Mountain: Duality of Religious Beliefs among the Zaghawa of Northwestern Sudan, Sharif Harir; Chapter 9 On Becoming Muslim: The Construction of Identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan, Leif Manger; Chapter 10 Afterword: The Comparative Study of Muslim Societies, William R. Roff;
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Authored by Manger, Leif
'...provides a useful antidote to conventional studies that insist upon analayzing Muslim societies solely through the lens of Islam...' - Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Professor Ali S. Asani
