Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies : : Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer / / Bettina Graf, Birgit Krawietz, Schirin Amir-Moazami.

• TeilnehmendeR: Amir-Moazami, Schirin,; Graf, Bettina,; Krawietz, Birgit,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 122.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (550 pages).

This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies. With contributions from scholars from around the world, the articles cover an extraordinarily wide geographical scope across a broad timeline, with transdisciplinary perspectives and a historically informed focus on contemporary phenomena. The wide-ranging subjects covered include among others a “men in headscarves” campaign in Iran, an Islamic call-in radio programme in Mombassa, a refugee-related court case in Germany, the Arab revolutions and aftermath from various theoretical perspectives, Ottoman family photos, Qurʾān translation in South Asia, and words that can’t be read.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Editors’ Preface: Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies -- Illustrations -- The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today -- Contributors -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- -- Islamic Studies Inside Out -- Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial Russia by Alexander Knysh -- Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage by Reinhard Schulze -- Empires, Corporations, and Nations -- Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and Challenges by Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk -- Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern History by Johann Büssow and Astrid Meier -- Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman Empire by Elke Hartmann -- The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms by M. Sait Özervarlı -- Islam, Ethics, and Languages -- Pratique religieuse et comportement moral by Abdou Filali-Ansary -- The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern Egypt by Mutaz al-Khatib -- Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa by Abdulkader Tayob -- Media Perspectives and Material Approaches -- From the Pocketbook to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940s by Bettina Gräf -- Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy, and the Question of Legibility by Alina Kokoschka -- Dimensions of “Giving Voice:” Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005–2006 by Kai Kresse -- Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, His Successors, and the Qurʾān by Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- The Politics of Body and Gender -- #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in Iran by Katajun Amirpur -- Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region by Bettina Dennerlein -- On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial Arts by Birgit Krawietz -- Dominant Minorities and Dominant Majorities -- Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle East by Hamit Bozarslan -- Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda by Dorothea E. Schulz -- Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle East -- Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research Project by Muriel Asseburg -- Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” by Cilja Harders -- Muslims Inside Out -- Recognition and its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in Europe by Schirin Amir-Moazami -- The Refugee and the Dog by Ruth Mas -- Back Matter -- Index.