Ethnographies of Islam : : Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices / / Thomas Pierret, Kathryn Spellman-Poots, Baudouin Dupret, Paulo G. Pinto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Dupret, Baudouin,; Pierret, Thomas,; Pinto, Paulo G.,
• MitwirkendeR: Aishima, Hatsuki,; Alkan-Zeybek, Hilal,; Baylocq, Cédric,; Boissevain, Katia,; Cantini, Daniele,; Chagas, Gisele Fonseca,; Dahlgren, Susanne,; Drici-Bechikh, Akila,; Dupret, Baudouin,; D’hondt, Sigurd,; Gilsenan, Michael,; Hounet, Yazid Ben,; Klaus, Enrique,; Kreil, Aymon,; Lange, Katharina,; Pierret, Thomas,; Pinto, Paulo G.,; Pinto, Paulo,; Spellman-Poots, Kathryn,; Varley, Emma,; Vloeberghs, Ward,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts : EMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsExplores the impact of the ethnographic method on the representation of Islam in anthropologyGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689842','ISBN:9780748645503','ISBN:9780748645510','ISBN:9780748654796']);This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilisation have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom. Such discourses are countered by the contributors who show the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and promote a reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology.Key FeaturesShows the benefit of using ethnography as a method to engage with and relate to specific empirical realitiesIncludes case studies on rituals and symbols in Syria, Tunisia, Damascus, Algeria, Britain, Pakistan, Brazil and LebanonCovers practices such as veiling, students' religious practices, charitable activities, law, and scholarship in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Performing Rituals -- Chapter 1 Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan -- Chapter 2 Preparing for the Hajj in Contemporary Tunisia: Between Religious and Administrative Ritual -- Chapter 3 “There Used To Be Terrible Disbelief ”: Mourning and Social Change in Northern Syria -- Chapter 4 Manifestations of Ashura Among Young British Shi ‘is -- Chapter 5 The Ma‘ruf: An Ethnography of Ritual (South Algeria) -- Chapter 6 The Sufi Ritual of the Darb al-shish and the Ethnography of Religious Experience -- Chapter 7 Preaching for Converts: Knowledge and Power in the Sunni Community in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 8 Worshipping the Martyr President: The Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut -- Chapter 9 Staging the Authority of the Ulama: The Celebration of the Mawlid in Urban Syria -- Part Two. Contextualising Interactions -- Chapter 10 The Salafi and the Others: An Ethnography of Intracommunal Relations in French Islam -- Chapter 11 Describing Religious Practices among University Students: A Case Study from the University of Jordan, Amman -- Chapter 12 Referring to Islam in Mutual Teasing: Notes on an Encounter between Two Tanzanian Revivalists -- Chapter 13 Salafis as Shaykhs: Othering the Pious in Cairo -- Chapter 14 Ethics of Care, Politics of Solidarity: Islamic Charitable Organisations in Turkey -- Chapter 15 Making Shari‘a Alive: Court Practice under an Ethnographic Lens -- Chapter 16 Referring to Islam as a Practice: Audiences, Relevancies and Language Games within the Egyptian Parliament -- Chapter 17 Contesting Public Images of ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910–78): Who is an Authentic Scholar? -- Part Three. The Ethnography of History -- Chapter 18 Possessed of Documents: Hybrid Laws and Translated Texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora -- About the Contributors -- Index