New methodological perspectives in Islamic studies / / edited by Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi.

• Superior document: Supplements to method et theory in the study of religion
• TeilnehmendeR: Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-; Abbas Aghdassi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to method et theory in the study of religion.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages).

"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, Betu¨l Avci, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmus¸ and Bahattin Aks¸it, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycin´ska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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 I. 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 II. The Political: 5. Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity: The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DI?A) / Betu¨l 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 Tu¨rkiye / Meral Durmus¸ and Bahattin Aks¸it -- Part III. 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.