Islam, politics, anthropology

Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, Islam, Politics, Anthropology offers critical reflections on past and current studies of Islam and politics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches to examining Islam in the post-9/11 world. Challenges current and past approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim politics in anthropology Offers a critical comprehensive review of past and current literature on the subject Presents innovative ethnographic description and analysis of everyday Muslim politics in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America Proposes new analytical approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim politics

Author Notes

Filippo Osella is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. For the past twenty years, Osella has conducted research in South India, and more recently in a number of West Asian Gulf countries. His current research focuses on the emergence of Islamic reformist movements and the rise of a new Muslim middle class in Kerala.
Benjamin Soares is a Senior Research Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands. His publications include Islam and the Prayer Economy (2005) and two co-edited volumes, Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa (2007) and Islam, Etat et socit en Afrique (2009).

Benjamin Soares and Filippo OsellaSamuli SchielkeHatsuki Aishima and Armando SalvatoreMagnus MarsdenKai KresseRosa De JorioLara DeebJulie McBrienIrfan AhmadMaimuna HuqDaromir RudnyckyjFilippo Osella and Caroline OsellaGregory Starrett

Notes on contributors	p. vii
1 Islam, politics, anthropology	p. 1
2 Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians	p. 23
3 Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo	p. 39
4 A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan	p. 54
5 Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery	p. 72
6 Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian Public sphere	p. 91
7 Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis	p. 107
8 Mukadas's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan	p. 121
9 Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism	p. 138
10 Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh	p. 156
11 Market Islam in Indonesia	p. 175
12 Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good	p. 194
13 Islam and the politics of enchantment	p. 213
Index	p. 231

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