For Love of the Prophet

An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State

Noah Salomon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691165141 (ISBN)

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For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic state, its possibilities and impossibilities, surprisingly little has been written about how this political formation is lived. For Love of the Prophet looks at the Republic of Sudan's twenty-five-year experiment with Islamic statehood. Focusing not on state institutions, but rather on the daily life that goes on in their shadows, Noah Salomon's careful ethnography examines the lasting effects of state Islamization on Sudanese society through a study of the individuals and organizations working in its midst. Salomon investigates Sudan at a crucial moment in its history--balanced between unity and partition, secular and religious politics, peace and war--when those who desired an Islamic state were rethinking the political form under which they had lived for nearly a generation.
Countering the dominant discourse, Salomon depicts contemporary Islamic politics not as a response to secularism and Westernization but as a node in a much longer conversation within Islamic thought, augmented and reappropriated as state projects of Islamic reform became objects of debate and controversy. Among the first books to delve into the making of the modern Islamic state, For Love of the Prophet reveals both novel political ideals and new articulations of Islam as it is rethought through the lens of the nation.

Noah Salomon is assistant professor of religion at Carleton College.

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Transliteration and Translation xvii Introduction:In Search of the Islamic State 1 Interventions Chapter One: Of Shaykhs and Kings: The Making of Sudanese Islam 29 Chapter Two: Civilizing Religion: Observations on the Architectureof Late Islamism 56 Itineraries Chapter Three: Rebuilding the Muslim Mind: Epistemological Enlightenmentand Its Discontents 97 Chapter Four: The Country That Prays upon the Prophet the Most: The Aesthetic Formation of the Islamic State 125 Chapter Five: Politics in the Age of Salvation: Reimagining the Islamic State 158 Inquiries Epilogue: Escaping the Islamic State? 199 Bibliography 217 Index 231

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	16 halftones.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780691165141 / 9780691165141
Zustand	Neuware