Islam in World Cultures: Comparative PerspectivesIslam in World Cultures analyzes differences in Islamic culture and practice by looking not simply at matters of doctrine, but also at how Islam interacts with local cultures.
Islam in World Cultures gathers the work of ten eminent scholars, each of whom has expertise in the Muslim culture of a particular country or geographical area. Individual chapters explore contemporary developments in the Islamic experience in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Ethiopia, and the United States. This broad treatment provides an introduction to the full range of issues relating to Islam in the context of globalization.
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David Buchman is a cultural anthropologist who has traveled throughout the Middle East pursuing the study of Arabic, Persian, Islam, and the status of contemporary Sufism. He is an assistant professor of anthropology and Middle East ...
In addition to the history and practice of Sufism in South Asia, his research interests include ritual studies, postcolonial theory, and religious nationalism. Gregory Starrett is associate professor of anthropology at the University of ...
Sufism The rise of Muslim ascetics can be viewed in relation to the development of a broader movement comprised of various traditionalist Islamic religious groups that have been referred to collectively by some historians as the “piety- ...
Recognizing the interrelatedness and the overlapping methods of ha- dith study, law, and Sufism, we should be skeptical of the polemics of those who would set up Sufis as a group separate from and in opposition to the ulama who ...
(Quoted in Renard 1998, 288) The institutional forms and sets of ritual practices transmitted across some networks of Sufi students and teachers eventually took on the form of organized orders—also referred to in Arabic as tariqasand ...
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Chapter TwoIslam after Empire Turkey and the Arab Middle East | 41 |
Chapter ThreeShiite Islam in Contemporary Iran From Islamic Revolution to Moderating Reform | 75 |
Chapter FourDebating Orthodoxy Contesting Tradition Islam in Contemporary South Asia | 103 |
Chapter FiveIslam in Contemporary Central Asia | 133 |
Chapter SixIslam in China Accommodation or Separatism? | 161 |
Chapter SevenMuslim Thought and Practice in Contemporary Indonesia | 183 |
Chapter EightReligion Language and Nationalism Harari Muslims in Christian Ethiopia | 217 |
Chapter NineRace Ideology and Islam in Contemporary South Africa | 253 |
Chapter TenPeril and Possibility Muslim Life in the United States | 283 |
Chapter ElevenSuggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resources | 309 |
Chapter TwelveKey Terms | 337 |
Index | 361 |