What is Islamic studies? : : European and North American approaches to a contested field / / edited by Leif Stenberg and Philip Wood.

• Superior document: Exploring Muslim contexts
• Author: Aga Khan University,
• TeilnehmendeR: Stenberg, Leif, 1959-; Wood, Philip, 1982-; Aga Khan University,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Exploring Muslim contexts.; Edinburgh scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2022.; Published in association with the Aga Khan University.

Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present - covering topics from secularism and gender to pop music and modern science.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field
• Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category
• Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique
• Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities
• Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of ‘Religion’ and ‘Islam’
• Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha
• Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science
• Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited
• Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History
• Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools
• About the Contributors
• Index