New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies

Aaron W. Hughes, Abbas Aghdassi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

327 Seiten

2023 | xvi, 311 pp., 3 tables
Brill (Verlag)
9789004536623 (ISBN)

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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, Betül Avcı, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycińska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.

Abbas Aghdassi, (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of History and Civilization of Muslims Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. He has published on Muslim minorities, methods in Islamic studies, and academic Persian, including Perspectives on Academic Persian (Springer, 2021). Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (2000), is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous books, edited collections and articles on Islam, Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Note on Transliteration

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 1: 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 2: The Political

5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity

The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DİA)

Betül Avcı

6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam

Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Naʾini

Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat

7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory

Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Türkiye

Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit

Part 3: 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 Pycińska

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 20
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	673 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9789004536623 / 9789004536623
Zustand	Neuware