Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond

Historical and Contemporary Case Studies

Simon Stjernholm, Elisabeth Özdalga (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474467483 (ISBN)

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Explores the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society.

Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus.
Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints.

Simon Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He publishes in both Swedish, Danish and English and his research has previously appeared in a number of key Anglophone journals, including the Journal of Muslims in Europe and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, including Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick’s Global Sufism (Hurst & Co, 2019) and Ron Geaves & Theodore Gabriel’s Sufism in Britain (Bloomsbury, 2013). This is his first edited volume in English.. Elisabeth Özdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of ‘Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Durée Perspective,’ Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.

Introduction

Part I. Ritual and Performance

1. The Framework of Islamic Rhetoric: The Ritual of the Khuṭba and its Origin

2. The Khuṭba Scene in Arab Religious Films and TV Dramas

3. Instructive Speech among Bosnian Muslim Women: Sermons, Lessons, or Guidance?

Part II. Power and Authority

4. Preaching and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam

5. Friday Sermons in a Secular State: Religious Institution-building in Modern Turkey

Part III. Mediation

6. Going Online. Saudi Female Intellectual Preachers in the New Media

7. Brief Reminders: Muslim Preachers, Mediation, and Time

Part IV. Identities

8. Advising and Warning the People: Swedish Salafis on Violence, Renunciation and Life in the Suburb

9. Discourses on Marriage, Religious Identity, and Gender in Medieval and Contemporary Islamic Preaching: Continuities and Adaptations

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781474467483 / 9781474467483
Zustand	Neuware