New Methods in the Study of Islam
Published on 31. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-3995-0350-1 (ISBN)
Description
Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate "Islamic data."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-0350-1 (9781399503501)
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Abbas Aghdassi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilisation of Muslim Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran. He is the author of Persian Academic Reading (2019, Routledge) and editor of Perspectives on Academic Persian (forthcoming, Springer Nature). Aaron W. Hughes is Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. Hughes specialises in three fields: Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies and Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, and has written numerous books in all three. He is co-editor of the book series Advances in the Study of Islam at Edinburgh University Press and of the Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule.
Content
1. Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam? - Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes
I Methods: Old and New
2. New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation - Aaron W. Hughes
3. The Reception of al-Andalus (1821-2021): Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate - Maribel Fierro and Alejandro Garcia-Sanjuan
II Textual Studies
4. Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History - Georg Leube
5. Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory - Ateeb Gul
6. New Theoretical Approaches to the Qur'an and Qur'anic Studies: An Analysis of the Qur'anic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory - Johanne Louise Christiansen
III Islam and/as Critique
7. On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam - Housamedden Darwish
IV New Comparisons
8. Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? - Esra Akay Dag
V Local Islams
9. Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria - Dauda Abubakar
10. Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam - Abdul Jaleel P.K.M.
11. Including Localized Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam - Claudia Seise
12. Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam - Ayse Almila Akca, Eyad Abuali, and Aydin Sueer
Index
I Methods: Old and New
2. New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation - Aaron W. Hughes
3. The Reception of al-Andalus (1821-2021): Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate - Maribel Fierro and Alejandro Garcia-Sanjuan
II Textual Studies
4. Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History - Georg Leube
5. Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory - Ateeb Gul
6. New Theoretical Approaches to the Qur'an and Qur'anic Studies: An Analysis of the Qur'anic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory - Johanne Louise Christiansen
III Islam and/as Critique
7. On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam - Housamedden Darwish
IV New Comparisons
8. Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? - Esra Akay Dag
V Local Islams
9. Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria - Dauda Abubakar
10. Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam - Abdul Jaleel P.K.M.
11. Including Localized Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam - Claudia Seise
12. Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam - Ayse Almila Akca, Eyad Abuali, and Aydin Sueer
Index