Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus.
Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints.
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[This book presents] a global picture of Islamic preaching in various contexts, from early Islam to Swedish suburbs. This testifies to the lively tradition of Islamic rhetoric beyond time and space. Here, the chapters on rhetoric situated in Swedish and Egyptian contexts make the most solid contribution. As a whole, the book could be useful to scholars and students of Islamic Studies, anthropology and Arabic literature. -- Abdessamad Belhaj, National University of Public Service, Budapest * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations * [This book presents] a global picture of Islamic preaching in various contexts, from early Islam to Swedish suburbs. This testifies to the lively tradition of Islamic rhetoric beyond time and space. Here, the chapters on rhetoric situated in Swedish and Egyptian contexts make the most solid contribution. As a whole, the book could be useful to scholars and students of Islamic Studies, anthropology and Arabic literature. -- Abdessamad Belhaj, Research Institute of Religion and Society, National University of Public Service, Budapest * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 33, No. 2 * [This book] provides unique insight into the evolving nature of preaching itself as well as more broadly the evolution of the role of religion in everyday life through the use of social media and other new technologies. As such, the book is impressively interdisciplinary, using a range of methodologies and theoretical framings from throughout the humanities and social sciences ... A valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of Islam both past and present. -- Courtney Freer, London School of Economics and Political Science * Middle Eastern Studies * [...] provides unique insight into the evolving nature of preaching itself as well as more broadly the evolution of the role of religion in everyday life through the use of social media and other new technologies. As such, the book is impressively interdisciplinary, using a range of methodologies and theoretical framings from throughout the humanities and social sciences. [...] a valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of Islam both past and present. -- Courtney Freer, London School of Economics and Political Science * Middle Eastern Studies * This impressive volume puts the past and present of Islamic preaching in comparative perspective. With nuanced attention to both larger contexts and local contingencies, it masterfully explores the ethical, political, and mediated stakes of this authoritative yet continually transforming Islamic practice from 14th century Cairo to 21st century Los Angeles, from Sweden to Saudi Arabia. -- Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan
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Simon Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He publishes in both Swedish, Danish and English and his research has previously appeared in a number of key Anglophone journals, including the Journal of Muslims in Europe and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, including Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick's Global Sufism (Hurst & Co, 2019) and Ron Geaves & Theodore Gabriel's Sufism in Britain (Bloomsbury, 2013). This is his first edited volume in English.. Elisabeth OEzdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of 'Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Duree Perspective,' Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.
Herausgeber*in
Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional StudiesUniversity of Copenhagen
Retired Professor and Senior ResearcherThe Swedish Research Institute
Introduction
Part I. Ritual and Performance
1. The Framework of Islamic Rhetoric: The Ritual of the Khu?ba and its Origin
2. The Khu?ba Scene in Arab Religious Films and TV Dramas
3. Instructive Speech among Bosnian Muslim Women: Sermons, Lessons, or Guidance?
Part II. Power and Authority
4. Preaching and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam
5. Friday Sermons in a Secular State: Religious Institution-building in Modern Turkey
Part III. Mediation
6. Going Online. Saudi Female Intellectual Preachers in the New Media
7. Brief Reminders: Muslim Preachers, Mediation, and Time
Part IV. Identities
8. Advising and Warning the People: Swedish Salafis on Violence, Renunciation and Life in the Suburb
9. Discourses on Marriage, Religious Identity, and Gender in Medieval and Contemporary Islamic Preaching: Continuities and Adaptations
