The Production and Consumption of Non-Muslim Islams
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399542777 (ISBN)
This book empirically substantiates a re-conceptualization of Islam as produced and consumed by both Muslims and non-Muslims. Non-Muslim Islam is too often condemned and decried by scholars, rather than investigated. However, non-Muslim politicians, journalists, and public debaters preaching and missionizing their own interpretations of Islam to both Muslim and non-Muslim audiences, and venturing into theological debates with Muslims as non-Muslim Islamic authorities, cannot be reduced to cynical power politics, bigotry, political opportunism, prejudice, or apologetics (even if this may sometimes be the case). Neither do these labels increase our understanding of non-Muslim Islam as a phenomenon. This book argues the case for studying non-Muslim Islam and demonstrates the value of doing so through 11 case studies, opening up a new field of research, while also giving an insight into the many epistemologies at play in the production of different non-Muslim Islams.
Anders Ackfeldt, PhD in History of Religions with specialisation in Islamic Studies from Lund University, is the Deputy Director of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. His latest book, Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture, has been published by Edinburgh University Press in 2025. Jesper Petersen, PhD in History of Religions with a specialisation in Islamic Studies from Lund University, is Associate Professor at Copenhagen University and Starting Grant research leader on the ‘Non-Muslim Islam’ project. His latest book, The Islamic Juridical Vacuum, was published by Brill in 2025.
Notes on Contributors
Introducing Non-Muslim Islam to Islamic Studies
Jesper Petersen and Anders Ackfeldt
1. The Consequences of Non-Religious Courts Defining Religion: Twenty Years of Case Law on Sharia from the European Court of Human Rights
Mikele Schultz-Knudsen
2. The Making of Non-Muslim State Islam in France
Niels Valdemar Vinding
3. What Did Jan Hjärpe Choose from the Islamic Basket? A Study of the Dominant Voice on Islam in Sweden, 1980–2000
Jonas Otterbeck
4. Islam’s True DNA
Jesper Petersen
5. Allah Says Beat Them! An Analysis of Non-Muslim Islams Justifying Domestic Violence
Jonas Svensson
6. Inverted Islam as Non-Muslim Islam
Douglas Mattsson
7. Non-Muslim Islam in the Intersection of Law and Politics
Lene Kühle
8. The Politics of Perception: Politicians and the ‘Muslim Other’
Brian Arly Jacobsen
9. Islam as Faith and Non-Faith
Olof Heilo
10. The (Urban) Shape of Islam
Garbi Schmidt
11. Relatively Non-Muslim: Religious Fluidity and Muslim-Christian Dynamics in the Greek-Albanian Borderland
Cecilie Endresen
Epilogue: Hidden in Plain Sight: A Term is Born
Aaron W. Hughes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Advances in the Study of Islam |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399542777 / 9781399542777 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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