New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies
Published on 31. May 2023
Book
Hardback
327 pages
978-90-04-53662-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume draws attention to and moves beyond the traditional methodological frames that have governed knowledge production in the academic study of Islam. Departing from Orientalist and largely textual studies, the chapters collected herein revolve around three main themes: gender, the political, and what has come to be known as "lived Islam." The first involves ascertaining how to read gender and gender issues into traditional sources. The second encourages an attunement to the often delicate intersection between the spheres of religion and politics. The final provides a corrective to our traditional over-emphasis on the interpretation of texts and a preoccupation with studying (mainly male) elites. Taken as a whole, this volume encourages a multi-methodological approach to the study of Islam.
Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betuel Avci, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmus and Bahattin Aksit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycinska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.
Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betuel Avci, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmus and Bahattin Aksit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycinska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.
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Series
Edition
xvi, 311 pp., 3 tables
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
673 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53662-3 (9789004536623)
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Persons
Abbas Aghdassi, (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of History and Civilization of Muslims Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. He has published on Muslim minorities, methods in Islamic studies, and academic Persian, including Perspectives on Academic Persian (Springer, 2021).
Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (2000), is the Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous books, edited collections and articles on Islam, Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion.
Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (2000), is the Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous books, edited collections and articles on Islam, Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration
1 Introduction: Moving Beyond
?Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
2 "Islam and..." Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison
?Aaron W. Hughes
Part 1: Gender
3 Toward a "Hermeneutics of Trust" in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts
?Eva Kepplinger
4 The Discursive Construction of Women's Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition
?Taira Amin
Part 2: The Political
5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity
The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DI?A)
?Betuel Avci
6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam
Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Na?ini
?Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat
7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory
Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Tuerkiye
?Meral Durmus? and Bahattin Aks?it
Part 3: Lived Islams
8 Old, New or Digital Philology
Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame
?Walid Ghali
9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam
The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies
?Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti
10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam
?Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding
11 Everyday Islam
Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide
?Magdalena Pycin?ska
12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development
An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam
?Zahraa McDonald
13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness
?Emin Poljarevic
14 Back to Critique
Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle
?Abdessamad Belhaj
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration
1 Introduction: Moving Beyond
?Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
2 "Islam and..." Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison
?Aaron W. Hughes
Part 1: Gender
3 Toward a "Hermeneutics of Trust" in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts
?Eva Kepplinger
4 The Discursive Construction of Women's Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition
?Taira Amin
Part 2: The Political
5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity
The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DI?A)
?Betuel Avci
6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam
Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Na?ini
?Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat
7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory
Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Tuerkiye
?Meral Durmus? and Bahattin Aks?it
Part 3: Lived Islams
8 Old, New or Digital Philology
Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame
?Walid Ghali
9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam
The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies
?Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti
10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam
?Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding
11 Everyday Islam
Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide
?Magdalena Pycin?ska
12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development
An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam
?Zahraa McDonald
13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness
?Emin Poljarevic
14 Back to Critique
Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle
?Abdessamad Belhaj
Index