For Love of the Prophet (eBook)

An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State

Noah Salomon (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400884292 (ISBN)

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Noah Salomon is assistant professor of religion at Carleton College.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Al-Ghazali • Al-Kawthar • arab spring • authoritarianism • British colonialism • Christian • Civil Society • Colonialism • cultural sovereignty • Dhikr • Doctrine • Epistemology • ethnography • freedom of religion • God • Governance • government office • Hassan Al-Turabi • Ideology • Inqadh regime • Institution • Iranian Revolution • Isis • Islam • Islamic culture • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic governance • Islamic party • Islamic politics • Islamic revival • Islamic schools and branches • Islamic State • Islamic state project • Islamic Studies • Islam in Sudan • Islamism • Islamization • Jews • Jihadism • John Garang • Kafir • Lecture • Literature • Mahdi • Mahdist Islamic political order • Michael Sells • Modernity • Mosque • Muhammad • Multiculturalism • Muslim • Muslim Brotherhood • Muslim world • names of god • National Congress Party • National Islamic Front • National Unity • nation state • neologism • New Sudan • Omdurman • Orthodoxy • piety • Poetry revival • Polemic • Political aspects of Islam • Political History • Political movements • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political power • Political Science • political strategy • Political System • Politics • Proper noun • Public sphere • Quran • Racism • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Identity • Religious pluralism • religious text • Rule of Law • Saba Mahmood • Salafi movement • Secularism • Secularization • Secular state • Sermon • Sharia • Sheikh • Siddiq • South Sudan • Sovereignty • State-Building • State (polity) • Sudan • Sudanese politics • Sudanese society • Sudanese students • Sudan People's Liberation Movement • Sufism • Sunni Islam • tariqa • the islamist • theocracy • Theology • The Other Hand • The Sufis • Transliteration • Treaty • Tunisia • Ummah • Westernization • Westphalian Sovereignty • Writing
• ISBN-13: 9781400884292 / 9781400884292